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Totem and Ore
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Cover of Totem and Ore
Author B Wongar
Publisher Carnegie, Vic. : Dingo Books
Publication date 2006
ISBN 0-9775078-0-7
OCLC Number 83977621
Dewey Decimal 305.89915 22
Library of Congress Classification U264 .W66 2006

Totem and Ore is B Wongar's latest book. It is an A4 coffee table format book which has a number of photos which show the effect of the British nuclear testing on the aboriginal people of Australia during the 1950s and 60s. There is also a foreword which talks about the devastation of nuclear weapons in Australia and recent conflicts.

Summary[]

The Australian Aborigines are the only people who have lived through a dual nuclear tragedy, the mining of uranium and the subsequent British nuclear testing, both of which took place on tribal land. The photographs of Totem and Ore collection tell what it was like to be at the forefront of the tragedy.

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