Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia’s First Peoples Brand / Loqi as well as professional insights

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with Joan Jonas and John Baldessari at the University of California

Children will love Bronwyn Bancrofts’s distinctive illustrations

Chari Larsson

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Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia’s First Peoples Brand / Loqi as well as professional insightsFatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the continent well into the twentieth century. The consequences still echo today in Aboriginal health and life expectancy. Many historians have