Sydney Writers' Festival 2024: Killing for Country with David Marr

David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police during the bloodiest years on the frontier.

The esteemed journalist and non-fiction writer turns his unflinching eye on this personal reckoning in Killing for Country: A Family Story. A feat of scholarship, The Age’s Frank Bongiorno lauded this soul-searching history of politics and power in the colonial world as “a timely exercise in truth-telling”.

Join David and host Laura Tingle to reckon with the violence of colonisation – and a war that is still unresolved in Australia today.