David Unaipon

In producing this edition, Muecke and Shoemaker have at last righted the injustices done to David Unaipon by the brazen appropriation of his stories and by the patronising editorial changes effected by Ramsay Smith. David Unaipon—the man on the $50 note—was a most extraordinary person. An early Aboriginal political activist, he was also a scientist, a writer, a preacher and...