Return to Uluru
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Return to Uluru
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Summary
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Mark McKenna chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Return to Uluru.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
- How Mark McKenna scoured archives, museum storerooms and even household garages to uncover new evidence that challenged the official record.
- Why Return to Uluru focuses on the 1934 shooting of an Indigenous man at a sacred waterhole near Uluru.
- How Mark treated Constable McKinnon’s memoir admission as a moral and ethical crux.
- Why Return to Uluru begins in the Central Australian landscape.
- How Mark framed the narrative as truth-telling, using the murder to invite reflection on Australia’s broader Indigenous–settler history.
- Why memory is unstable and partial and how people reshape past events into multiple plausible truths.
- Mark argues that all history and biography must be continually reinterpreted in the light of new evidence.
- Why Mark believes a biographer’s role is relentless questioning, never taking records at face value and always probing why, why, why behind every account.
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