First Nations people please be advised this article speaks of racially discriminating moments in history, including the distress and death of First Nations people.
When I produced the deadly earnest study A History of Queensland back in 2007, the publishers, tucked away down south in Port Melbourne, seriously asked me why I had not included a key section on crocodiles and yet another on the origin of the lamington. Why did I have to have so much in there on labour and race relations, they complained. At least they stopped short of demanding a recipe for pumpkin scones.
