Part One: Journeys Down the Murray. Inside the boat -- Outside the boat. Part Two: Kinship. Trust -- Families -- Speech -- Amelia Park -- Damage. Part Three: The Museum and the Mouth. Anthropology -- Experts -- The Mouth House -- Reconciliation -- The things that Tinny stood for -- The reporters -- Radical political shit-stirrers. Part Four: Journalism. Ahead of the pack -- Other people's mail -- Scones -- The great lie of Hindmarsh Island. Part Five: High Tide. Grand opera. Part Six: Matinee Jackets. The Mathews Inquiry -- Race power -- What the Bible can do -- Exhibitions -- Von Doussa
Summary
The author unravels the complexities that surround the construction of the Hindmarsh Island Bridge, and probes beyond the conventional picture of a commercial venture stymied by fraudulent claims and bureaucratic interference. Here is a story that goes to the heart of who we are as a nation, to the nature of truth, history and equity
Analysis
Royal Commissions
Royal commissions
Hindmarsh Island
Aboriginal women
Aboriginal sacred sites
Aboriginal culture
Bridges
Ngarrindjeri People
Aboriginal land rights
Environmental impact
Notes
"A Hodder book"
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references: (pages [477]-501) and index