Looking for Blackfellas' Point: an Australian History of Place

A history for every Australian who is interested in the story of settler-Australia’s relations with Indigenous people - what happened between us, how we learnt to forget and, finally, how we came to confront the truth about our past and build a movement for reconciliation.

Mark McKenna has written widely on republicanism and reconciliation, and has been involved in public debate on the republic for more than a decade. His first book, The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia, was co-winner of the Australian Historical Studies Association's WK Hancock Prize in 1998. More recently, his book *Looking for Blackfellas’ Point: an Australian History of Place* won both the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction and the Book of the Year in the 2003 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, as well as the Australian Cultural Studies Prize 2002. Mark is an Australian Research Council Fellow currently based in the History Department at the Australian National University in Canberra.