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The aim of much recent writing on alleged frontier massacres appears to be the conjuring of as many murdered Aborigines as possible. With its errors, omissions and disconcerting semi-novelistic approach to the events and non-events at Forrest River, Professor Kate Auty’s book is another example of that movement. That it has been blessed with the imprimatur of a university press makes this sorry work all the more depressing ....