Date de naissance: 1927-05-13
Date de décès: 2002-05
Sexe: male
Nationalité: Australia
Lieu de naissance: Toogoolawah, Queensland, Australia
Courte biographie: 'Bill Rosser was a celebrated Aboriginal writer, historian and poet. He grew up in Queensland. He left school at 11, unable to read or write, and educated himself with the aid of a dictionary. He travelled extensively and settled on Palm Island, where he wrote his first book (This is Palm Island, AIAS, 1978). He has published a large number of books and won many awards, including the Australian Human Rights Award, both the Queensland and New South Wales Premier's Awards and the RAKA award for Indigenous creators. Bill passed away in May 2002. It was his ambition to share the beliefs and philosophies of Aboriginal people with all people, so they are better understood.'

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Up rode the troopers : the black police in Queensland par Bill Rosser

Bill Rosser is a great story teller, and he brings to life both Cyclone Jack's memories and his own visits to the camp where Jack lives. While he puts Jack's memories in context with documentary evidence, this is primary history, not dispassionate secondary considerations. At the end of the book I found myself as emotionally invested in Cyclone Jack and his horrific family story as is Bill Rosser.

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Iacobus | 1 autre critique | Feb 22, 2009 |

Up rode the troopers : the black police in Queensland par Bill Rosser

Synopsis Bill Rosser, formerly a timber cutter and bullock driver, began writing in 1974 after he discovered the suppression and brutality directed at his people in an Aboriginal reserve on Palm Island, which was set up under Queensland's Aboriginal Act. His third book, Up Rode the Troopers, is an account of how the mounted Aboriginal native police in Queensland were cajoled by white police into killing their own kind in the 1800s. rel="nofollow" target="_top">http://www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/public/awards/raka.html

http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/aboriginal_studies_press/find_a_book/online_stories/ou...… (plus d'informations)

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blackfellas | 1 autre critique | Nov 21, 2007 |

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