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Fatal Contact is a timely account of how epidemics devastated our First Peoples

  • Written by: Cassandra Pybus, Adjunct Professor in History, University of Tasmania
Fatal Contact is a timely account of how epidemics devastated our First PeoplesWybalenna, Flinders Island: the Aboriginal settlement 1847. Courtesy of Libraries Tasmania

Review: Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia’s First Peoples by Peter Dowling (Monash University Publishing)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of deceased people.

As Peter...

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