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Biting the clouds : a Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897

by Fiona Foley

Combining history, personal narrative, and artwork, this study examines the colonial practice of paying Indigenous Badtjala workers of K'gari in opium and their subsequent displacement. Full-colour images help reclaim the Badtjala story from the colonisation narrative.

Accession 20282 ISBN 9780702262982 Publisher University of Queensland Press
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