Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-06-12
Books mentioned on Part Two: How Eliza Fraser Survived a Shipwreck and Sparked a Genocide
Robert tells Jack about the 'rescue' of Eliza Fraser and how her lies about what happened on K'gari Island helped to fuel decades of colonial war and genocide. See omnystudio.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Dawn of Everything
Discussed“like that book the dawn of everything by David Greyber and David Wangrove. Like they talk about how one of the key freedoms”
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The Transit of Empire
Discussed“and cites Jodie Bird's book, The Transit of Empire, which describes this as part of a process that allowed the Empire to quote, "facilitate, justify, and rationalize the state sponsored violence that tear land, resources, and sovereignty from indigenous people."”
