Viruses and colonialism are hand in glove, to posit an unsanitary metaphor. As Jared Diamond writes in Guns, Germs and Steel, his bestselling global history, European colonisation, particularly in the Americas and Australasia, cannot be understood without reference to the terrible, at times genocidal, ravages of disease on indigenous societies.
Intaglio
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Walking Wurundjeri Country
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Through a Mask, Breathing
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Australia In Three Books
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The Passions of the Broken-Hearted
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The Great Might Have Been
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Soul-eaters
Marrow moulded I raised the scalpel to make the first cut into that crenulated piece of flesh and found I couldn’t do it. Here before me was the brain of a sheep, nothing more than a hunk of meat, but I couldn’t help think of sheepy thoughts locked inside those dead cells as though they were exhibits in a museum. Year nine science class, and the brain sat on the desk in front of us on a chopping board—similar to the white plastic one we had in our kitchen at home. It was pinky-grey, a dead sort of colour, mottled […]
Seeing the Criminal for the Crime
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Too Little, Too Much
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What Is a Woman?
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