Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia’s First Peoples Brand / Loqi tells her story of love

tells her story of love and loss

Children will love Bronwyn Bancrofts’s distinctive illustrations

with Joan Jonas and John Baldessari at the University of California

Budding artists just have to pick up their pencils

Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia’s First Peoples Brand / Loqi tells her story of loveFatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the continent well into the twentieth century. The consequences still echo today in Aboriginal health and life expectancy. Many historians have