Gentle Warrior

William Cooper Gentle Warrior: Standing Up for Australian Aborigines and Persecuted Jews (2012) by Barbara Miller

Read about one of Australia’s early Indigenous activists who met with Prime Ministers and petitioned kings and who championed the cause of Jews at Kristallnacht in 1938. This book is the history of Indigenous Australia from settlement to 2012 in a nutshell.

Review by Eve Darian-Smith, PhD LLB,
Professor and Departmental Chair Global & International Studies, USA

“… the book adds a significant new dimension to our understandings of Indigenous politics on a global scale both pre and post-World War Two. And perhaps, most importantly, the account points to the intersections between Australia’s Indigenous and immigration policies or, to put it another way, its internal and external racial strategies…”