Aliens & Savages

<p><em>Aliens & Savages</em> is a hands-on historical record of the racism that underpins Australia's growth as a nation. First published twenty-five years ago this new and revised edition asks: what has changed?</p><p> </p><p>As we approach the referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament <em>Aliens & Savages</em> is still the only publication of its kind - a survey of racism and xenophobia in Australian popular writings before the advent of social media. It is a collection of fiction and non-fiction of personal narratives and official reports of diaries and media misinformation. In it you can hear the unguarded voices of the colonists the squatters the politicians; you can see the close relationship between the popular press and the prejudices of its readers. </p>