Umarrah & George by Angela Baker | PB Autobiography / Biography suffused with the threat of

suffused with the threat of bushfire and flood

but Saul Eslake cuts through the politics and rhetoric and looks at the past

same adventurous spirits

Yeng goes to day care three days a week

When this award-winning writer submitted a poem just days after I had read Fiona Stocker’s piece

Umarrah & George by Angela Baker | PB Autobiography / Biography suffused with the threat ofThis book has been shortlisted in the Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History 2026. Umarrah, a young Aboriginal man, is rescued from drowning by George, a young Van Diemens Land settler. Umarrah uses their emerging friendship to gain information on his sisters abduction and intelligence on the islands invaders. As the early years of relative peace are replaced by increasing violence, Umarrah becomes entangled in government efforts to