The Great Australian Silence

Dean Ashenden has worked as an academic, a political adviser, and journalist. His book, Telling Tennant's Story won the 2022 inaugural Political Book of the Year.

Kim Mahood is a writer and artist who grew up in Central Australia and on Tanami Downs Station. She has worked closely with Aboriginal people across Australia’s desert regions, maintains strong connections with Warlpiri and Walmajarri people. She is the author of Wandering With Intent, Craft for a Dry Lake and Position Doubtful and is the co-editor of Desert Lake: art, science and stories from Paruku.  

Professor Peter Sutton FASSA is a social anthropologist and linguist who has, over more than 50 years, contributed to learning and recording Aboriginal languages, promoting Aboriginal art, mapping Aboriginal cultural landscapes, increasing understanding of contemporary Aboriginal societies and land tenure systems, and the successes of native title claimants. He has published The Politics of Suffering and Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate.