Adelaide Festival: The Great Australian Silence with Dean Ashenden

Dean Ashenden’s book Telling Tennant’s Story: The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence combines memoir, history and journalism and has been awarded the inaugural Australian Political Book of the Year. Ashenden is joined by Peter Sutton for a conversation about “the sorry story of White Australia’s repeated assaults – and clumsy interventions – on Indigenous Australia since the arrival of the First Fleet".