Geoffrey Blainey Quote

The shrinking world was becoming too small to permit a whole people to be set aside in a vast protected anthropological museum where they would try to perpetuate the merits and defects of a way of life that had vanished elsewhere, a way of life that - so long as it continued - would deprive millions of foreign people of the food and fibres that could have been grown on the land.


A Shorter History of Australia (1994)


The shrinking world was becoming too small to permit a whole people to be set aside in a vast protected anthropological museum where they would try...

The shrinking world was becoming too small to permit a whole people to be set aside in a vast protected anthropological museum where they would try...

The shrinking world was becoming too small to permit a whole people to be set aside in a vast protected anthropological museum where they would try...

The shrinking world was becoming too small to permit a whole people to be set aside in a vast protected anthropological museum where they would try...