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30 January 2022
Australian Classic musical.
For me THE best musical of all time. Great catchy songs along with a storyline of the nastiness of colonial invasion but ending with a positive moral that we should all get along together.
11 November 2021
A very good read about the iKiribati in particular.
I was looking forward to reading this book as I had sailed to the Kiribati on my yacht in the 1970s and met Captain Vic Ward in Tarawa. I worked on his ship the Ninikoria on a tour of some of the islands and away to Nauru as ship's electrician then at a later time traveled to Suva as a passenger. Vic was a lovely bloke and I wanted to learn more about him and his experiences but I was a little disappointed that the book didn't have more about him and his life. However for a reader who doesn't have a personal connection, this book is a very good read. The iKiribati people are truly unique in their language, music, culture and a reader will learn a lot about them from this book and like the author and Captain Ward, I admire and respect them immensely.
12 January 2017
Essential reading
This book is absolutely a 'must read' for EVERYONE who like to call Australia home. Along with Bill Gamage's book "The Biggest Estate On Earth" and books by Henry Reynolds and Jim Poulter, in particular his latest book "The Dust Of The Mindye" telling of the deliberate murder of thousands of people by smallpox infection carried out by 2 military men of the 'first fleet'. It is high time we 'newcomers' learnt of the true history of this once marvelous land. Bruce Pascoe writes in an optimistic way of how we could live from the crops/foods that Aboriginal people grew and harvested if only we could break away from our European mindset and acknowledge that the people were not all 'hunters and gathers' but farmed and managed the land with far more wisdom than we invaders. This might also mean that we will have to evaluate just how many people this land can support!? It seems there were no wild fires until we came along and fenced off our precious patch and 'explorers' raided grain stores and other foods without a 'may we please or thank you'. This book MUST be included in the national school curriculum!