Telling Tennant's Story by Dean Ashenden evolution Boyce writes that Clendinnen’s ‘ability

Boyce writes that Clendinnen’s ‘ability to write serious history for a general readership was unrivalled in this country … Her writings are an enduring testament to the truth that while we might “live within the narrow moving band of time we call the present … the secret engine of our present is our past

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David Malouf looks at Australia's bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn't the Mother Country which did most of the giving

Telling Tennant's Story by Dean Ashenden evolution Boyce writes that Clendinnen’s ‘abilityThe tale of a town, and a nation Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a boy, Dean Ashenden finds Tennant Creek transformed, but its silence about the past still mostly intact. Provoked by a half hidden account, Ashenden sets out to understand how the story of relations between two racial groups in a single field of life has been told and not told, in this town and across the nation. In a riveting combination of memoir,