Review

Garry Hiskey gives an insider's perspective of Maralinga Land Rights Act

By T.j. Collins
Updated August 3 2021 - 12:56pm, first published July 31 2021 - 12:00am

Garry Hiskey's book charts his involvement with the Maralinga people's pursuit of native title in the early 1980s. In 1981, the solicitor with the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement began acting for the traditional owners of the Maralinga lands in South Australia in the negotiations that led to the passage of the Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act 1984. It was hugely significant case, and Hiskey's book offers an insider's perspective of what transpired in the years prior to the passing of the act. We're told this is "a story of intrigue, divided loyalties and political controversy". Of course, it's also a story about Australia's colonial past and our mistreatment of Aboriginal people.

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