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Book review: Intoxicating by Max Allen


Max Allen’s new book ‘Intoxicating’ on display at Dalwood Estate. (Photo: Dalwood Estate)
It’s been assumed by most of us that Aboriginal Australians never drank alcohol before white European settlers/invaders arrived in 1788. But, as Max Allen writes in his latest book, this is not true.
Allen isn’t the first to record this fact: Aboriginal historians and elders have known it for a long time, but it never penetrated the public (read: white) consciousness. It suited the white man to circulate the idea that Aboriginal problems with alcohol were due to the fact that they had no history of alcohol in their own culture and couldn’t handle it when Europeans introduced them to it. It’s a fascinating and engrossing book, superbly written as we’ve come to expect from Max Allen, and I highly recommend it. ....

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