The Lone Protestor: AM Fernando in Australia and Europe

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The late 1920s marked an extraordinary protest by an Australian Aboriginal man on the streets of London. Standing outside Australia House, cloaked in tiny skeletons, Anthony Martin Fernando condemned the failure of British rule in his country. Drawn from an extensive search in archives from Australia and Europe, this is the first full-length study of Fernando’s life and the self-professed mission that lasted half his adult life. A moving account, it chronicles the various forms of action taken by Fernando—from pamphlets on the streets of Rome to speeches in the famous Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park—and brings to light previously unknown details about his extraordinary life in Australia and overseas. Cover......Page 1 Copyright......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 Illustrations......Page 9 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Timeline......Page 13 Introduction......Page 14 chapter one First Forty Years and his ‘Guiding Star’......Page 22 chapter two Murder in Western Australia, 1903......Page 37 chapter three Internment in Austria, 1916......Page 58 chapter four To the Swiss People, 1921......Page 75 chapter five Street Protest in Rome, 1925......Page 96 chapter s ix Picketing Australia House, 1928......Page 118 chapter seven Testimony at the Old Bailey, 1929......Page 134 chapter eight Speaker in Hyde Park, into the 1930s......Page 162 chapter nine Civilising England, 1938......Page 183 Postscript......Page 193 Notes......Page 203 Index......Page 242