The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung,the Settlers and the Protectors

The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors . By Bain Attwood (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2017), pp.xiv + 225. AU$29.95 (pb).     

The country and the cities

Labour migration between countries such as Indonesia and Hong Kong needs to be contextualised within the general patterns of movement throughout the Asian region. These patterns are long term, but accelerated in the late colonial period. As well as physical mobility, such patterns of movement involve cultural and even social forms of mobility. They should be seen as continuous with processes of urbanisation, particularly the formation of “urban corridors” where the distinction between “country” and “city” has increasingly become blurred.     

The Future of the Rhodesias

Sir Alfred Beit has recently returned to this country aftera visit with a Parliamentary Delegation to Southern Africa.This article reproduces the more salient of the points he madein a lecture on the 29th November, under the Chairmanship ofSir John Chancellor, the first Governor of Southern Rhodesia.Sir Alfred is now Parliamentary Private Secretary to ColonelOliver Stanley.