Telling Tennant's Story: The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence

The tale of a town, and a nation

Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a boy, Dean Ashenden finds Tennant Creek transformed, but its silence about the past still mostly intact.

Provoked by a half-hidden account, Ashenden sets out to understand how the story of 'relations between two racial groups within a single field of life' has been told and not told, in this town and across the nation.

In a riveting combination of m...