Contaminated Country: Nuclear colonialism and Aboriginal resistance in Australia
University of Washington Press, US$110 hb, 296 pp
Ugly legacy
The Coalition was keen to spruik a nuclear future in Australia’s most recent federal election campaign. Conspicuous in its absence was a reckoning with Australia’s nuclear past. In Contaminated Country: Nuclear colonialism and Aboriginal resistance in Australia, environmental historian Jessica Urwin rightly puts that ugly legacy back in our minds.
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Contaminated Country: Nuclear colonialism and Aboriginal resistance in Australia
by Jessica Urwin
University of Washington Press, US$110 hb, 296 pp
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