A Secret Country

If you are Australian you need to read this book. Some of the things within will make you cry, make you ashamed and make you proud.

Pilger is a first rate journalist. He believes a journalist ought to be a guardian of the public memory and often quotes Milan Kundera: "The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

"It is too easy," he says, "for Western journalists to see humanity in terms of its usefulness to 'our' interests and to follow government agendas that ordain good and bad tyrants, worthy and unworthy victims and present 'our' policies as always benign when the opposite is usually true. It's the journalist's job, first of all, to look in the mirror of his own society."


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A good picture into the things not readily discussed in OZ History. How biased, I'm unsure?

Required reading for anyone old enough to vote.

John Pilger and Alan Lowery tell the story of the Aborigines and their 40,000 (60,000) year past. Run time: 53 mins.