163: THE MASSACRE OF AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
ISBN 0 9577352 3 5
WINTER 2001

CULTURE WARS & HISTORY WARS 163: the massacre of australian history / the renewal of australian culture was one of Overland’s most acclaimed and popular issues to date, with a limited number remaining in stock.

Produced in winter 2001, it contains an explosive 12,000-word essay by RAYMOND EVANS and BILL THORPE discrediting claims by Quadrant and several Australian newspapers that massacres of Australian Aborigines were few and far between, with an overwhelming amount of disturbing and graphic first-hand documentation about the massacres from primary research. It takes public historian Keith Windschuttle to task, and reveals that many of his claims are demonstrably false.

In his Overland lecture Gangland’s MARK DAVIS writes about culture wars, wedge politics and how we can rescue cultural debate and political life from the assumptions of economic rationalism.

BOB ELLIS gives a withering response to Michael Warby’s biography of Ellis and its litany of lies and errors.

This issue features a previously unpublished story by the 17-year-old ELIZABETH JOLLEY, written after her stay at a Hitler youth camp in 1939. CASSANDRA PYBUS reviews Miles Franklin winner Dark Palace by Frank Moorhouse and novels from two other big boys of Australian letters: Carey and Hall.

Overland 163 continues the journal’s tradition of digging up dirt on ASIO dobbers. The Massacre of Australian History also contains Overland’s regular selection of high quality poetry, stories and an expanded 32-page review section.