Peter Sutton

Books by Peter Sutton

Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?

The Dark Emu Debate

Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu in 2014. It argued that classical Aboriginal society was more sophisticated than Australians had been led to believe because it res...
Politics Of Suffering

Indigenous Australia and The End of the Liberal Consensus

In this ground breaking book, Peter Sutton asks why, after three decades of liberal thinking, has the suffering and grief in so many Aboriginal communities become worse? The picture Sutton presents is tragic. He marshals shocking evidence against the failures of the past, and argues provocatively...
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