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