You may have read about American Indians who resisted the loss of their lands. This book tells how the Aborigines in Australia fought similarly in defense of their lands along a most savage frontier. Jack of Cape Grim is a unique and rare account, based on original unpublished handwritten diaries and correspondence, and on Aboriginal memories, of an intrepid band of Aboriginal women and men who fought to protect their lands, resisting three military expeditions sent after them. Melbourne in 1839 consisted of tumbledown wooden houses and roads so muddy that horses and carts sunk out of sight, yet it was a magnet for the younger sons of aristocrats who arrived accompanied by tens of thousands of sea-sick sheep. Nearby the Aborigines had stone walled homes with roofs so strong that settlers reported they stood the weight of a horse, and extensive fish farms - all of which was soon to be destroyed. This is the story of an incredible cultural clash in one of the remotest parts of the British Empire. Many Aboriginal Elders thought the end of days had come. They said the dead had returned, for everyone knew that ghosts were white! They said these must not be resisted. Other Aborigines took every opportunity to study the technology bought by these strangers - and others, more astutely perhaps, said these new arrivals were savages from overseas and must be immediately resisted. Among the later were a group of three Tasmanian women, including Truganini, a woman famous for her beauty among the settler leaders and wrongly reputed to be the last of her people, and two Tasmanian men including Jack of Cape Grim. They had no hope of returning to their tribal lands, so eventually decided they must make a last stand. This is their story of how they outwitted the British army sent against them and drove settlers back into town, but only to be finally betrayed. However these women then won their way back to Tasmania and continued to struggle for their land. Today, near Cape Grim in Tasmania, where Jack's folk were thrown over a cliff, some of their people's descendants still hunt the mutton bird. Australian government funding has been granted for a film script based on this book and negotiations are proceeding. The author Jan Roberts worked for some 17 years with Aboriginal people and their organizations on civil rights issues. Her articles have appeared in the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald as well as in the Independent and Financial Times in the UK. Her films have been shown on television in the USA, UK and Australia.

Jack of Cape Grim: A Story of British Invasion and Aboriginal Resistance

Biographies & Memoirs

Roberts, Jan

Community & Culture

Impact Investigative Media Productions

'Massacres to Mining: the Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia' by Janine Roberts is a new edition of a seminal illustrated work of history that had an enormous impact in Australia when first published there in 1981, for it revealed Australia's hidden story and its shame. The eminent Australian literary figure Xavier Herbert wrote of the author: 'She handles her history with a restraint that makes it a work deserving to be established as a classic in our history. The effect on myself was profound. My task is to commend Massacres to Mining as the most telling exposure of the evil ever done.' This powerful work documents, from both Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal sources, the impact of British settlement on the Aborigines of Australia. If you know about the American Indians but nothing about Australian Aborigines, this is the book for you. It is both fascinating and a myth-buster. It tells what life in Australia was like before the British arrived, why Aborigines were falsely said to be nomads, and dispels the myth that Aborigines did not fight for their land - by describing the widespread nature of the fighting that ensued, a fight that was still waged against terrible odds in the remote parts of Australia in the 1930s. It describes how the mining industry led the charge onto the remaining Aboriginal lands. It tells, not just of the devastation caused by gold, uranium and diamond mining, but also of victories: of how a community removed in irons in the 1960s returned to reoccupy its land; how a nation whose ancestors defeated the Dutch in 1606 has now persuaded Shell to leave its strip-mining lease over 560 sq. miles of tropical forest rich in food sources. It is however an ongoing struggle. The book in an update tells how Aboriginal communities are today faced by renewed threats from uranium miners. This is a history for our times that tells of atrocities but points at ways to protect our earth by learning from the Aborigines. The author believes: 'Without understanding how things went wrong, we cannot build a future.' Roberts studied Sociology at the LSE and has since spent over 15 years working with Australian Aborigines. She has traveled with their elders throughout much of the Outback - and witnessed many of the events of recent times documented here. Her photographs are used throughout the book, along with cartoons by major artists. The book has received the endorsement of many Aborigines. It was the basis for the Grenada TV film 'Strangers in their Own Land' and helped inspire the BBC/ABC film 'A Sacred Rite.' Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney invited her to testify at the US Congress and said: ''Janine Roberts is that rare individual who unflinchingly speaks truth to power. I count myself among the privileged of the world to know Janine and her work.'

Massacres to Mining: the Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia

History

Australia & Oceania

<p>This book takes its readers on a journey into the very heart of the hunt for viruses - to the key experiments originally performed to prove that these invisibly small particles are the cause of diseases previously blamed on toxins or bacteria and into the latest research. It sheds light on the extraordinary assumptions that underlay much of this research - and on the vaccines that developed from this. The author, an investigative journalist who has researched and produced investigative films for the BBC, American and Australian television, was asked by parents with children severely ill after vaccination, to discover if the medical authorities were hiding anything from them. She agreed, but had no idea how long this search would take. She expected at best to uncover a small degree of contamination. On the ensuing decade-long journey of discovery, she learnt it is not just the added mercury that we have to worry about. She discovered that the top government scientists admit to colleagues that vaccines are contaminated with viruses from chickens, humans and monkeys, with RNA and DNA fragments, with 'cellular degradation products', and possibly 'oncogenes and prions.' They report alarmingly that it is impossible to commercially purify vaccines. They express great concerns, but the public is not told despite the possible consequences for long-term public health. A recent US court decision has linked autism with vaccine contamination. The author cites her sources by name - and gives references and Internet links where they are available. I She reveals evidence that the World Health Organisation has discovered the MMR vaccine is contaminated with chicken leukosis virus, but has decided not to tell the public of this, and to continue to make the vaccine with eggs from contaminated chickens. She reports US biowarfare researchers tried to create new agents to destroy our immune systems - and worked on a bacterium to make it a hospital superbug. Did they manage to create HIV? A senior professor told her that the vaccine program was so contaminated that HIV might well have spread though it without any need for military intervention. She set out to find the evidence to resolve this, and to learn how HIV apparently spread so far and fast. She needed to know more about this virus so went to the foundation research widely held today to have found HIV and proved it caused AIDS. She was then rocked to discover that this same research was investigated for scientific fraud for a five year period by powerful US scientific institutions and by Congress,. Why is this not widely known? She found their reports and discovered they found major errors in this research, some so serious that these made it impossible to repeat these experiments and thus to verify them! She reveals the evidence unearthed - reproducing key documents so the reader can assess them for themselves. This is explosive material. In the final part of this book the author reports recent research that is revolutionising biology and offering much hope for the future. These new developments shed new light on the relationships between our cells and viruses. They are not necessarily enemies. Readers may find these new developments radically change the ideas they have held about viruses since childhood. This book has over 500 references and includes several documents unearthed under Freedom of Information legislation. `It has a scientific glossary and is fully indexed..</p>

Fear of the Invisible

Medical Books

Roberts, Janine

Basic Sciences

Jabs, Jenner & Juggernauts: a Look at Vaccination is a personal account of the author's (a former nurse) research into vaccination literature. The story begins with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's introduction of smallpox inoculation into England in 1746 and continues into the present day. Some descriptions are written as 'interviews' with authors, alive or dead, in which the dialogue is taken directly from the author's work; some are imagined scenes of actual events; some are straight accounts of research data, often illustrated with graphs. The book is written for those without a strong medical or scientific background and is particularly useful for parents who are facing the decision of whether to vaccinate their children. REVIEWS Edda West Vaccination Risk Awareness Network, Canada "I've always felt it is really important to cast a light of truth on the smallpox vaccine mythology and how it is still worshipped by the medical profession as the greatest gift to mankind. Hopefully your book will go a long way in really rocking this foundation of lies." Hilary Butler Immunization Awareness Society, New Zealand "An irreverent, funny, but incisive kitchen table dissection of a sacred medical cow" Viera Scheibner, Ph.D, Australia Author of Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research Shows that Vaccines Represent a Medical Assault on the Immune System "There is always space for another good book against vaccination; one that will open people's eyes about the nasty reality of vaccination." Sheri Nakken, Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA You've done an excellent job and this book will be very useful to all people who question vaccination.

Jabs, Jenner and Juggernauts: a Look at Vaccination

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Craig PhD McOptom Faao, Jennifer

Diseases & Physical Ailments

<p>The Vaccine Papers documents the remarkable and worrying findings of an independent investigation by the prize-winning journalist Janine Roberts into the development and manufacture of today's vaccines.</p>

The Vaccine Papers

Roberts Ed. D., Janine

Administration & Medicine Economics

The Tree Elves Picnic

Children's Books

Roberts, Alice Jane

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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