The Lone Protestor
AM Fernando in Australia and Europe
Winner of the Magarey Medal for Biography, 2014.
Shortlisted for the 2013 Ernest Scott Award.
The late 1920s saw an extraordinary protest by an Australian Aboriginal man on the streets of London. Standing outside Australia House, cloaked in tiny skeletons, Anthony Martin Fernando condemned the failure of British rule in his country.
Fernando is believed to be the first Aboriginal person to protest conditions in Australia from the streets of Europe. His various forms of action, from pamphlets on the streets of Rome to the famous Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, distinguish this lone protestor as a unique Aboriginal activist of his time.
Production Details
- Paperback
- 230mm x 155mm x 15mm
- 228pp
- Released May 2012
- ISBN 9781922059055
About the Author
Dr Fiona Paisley is cultural historian who teaches at Griffith University. She is the author of Loving Protection? Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Rights 1919-1939, with Anna Cole and Victoria Haskins, Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History, and Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women's Pan-Pacific.