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• Preliminary Pages
• Contributors
• Preface

1. François Péron and the Tasmanians: an unrequited romance
2. Moving Blackwards: Black Power and the Aboriginal Embassy
3. Criminal justice and transgression on northern Australian cattle stations
4. Dreaming the circle: indigeneity and the longing for belonging in White Australia
5. Resisting the captured image: how Gwoja Tjungurrayi, ‘One Pound Jimmy’, escaped the ‘Stone Age’
6. On the romances of marriage, love and solitude: freedom and transgression in Cape York Peninsula in the early to mid twentieth century
7. ‘Hanging no good for blackfellow’: looking into the life of Musquito
8. Leadership: the quandary of Aboriginal societies in crises, 1788 - 1830, and 1966
9. Sedentary topography: the impact of the Christian Mission Society’s ‘civilising’ agenda on the spatial structure of life in the Roper Region of northern Australia
10. Sinful enough for Jesus: guilt and Christianisation at Mapoon, Queensland
11. Corrupt desires and the wages of sin: Indigenous people, missionaries and male sexuality, 1830-1850