The Secret River
I recently watched the ABC (Australia) produced two‐part TV series The Secret River, based on Kate Genville’s 2005 ‘historical novel about an early 19th‐century Englishman transported to Australia for theft. The story explores what may have happened when Europeans colonised land already inhabited by Aboriginal people’ [Wikipedia]. However I wanted the outcome to be different — be it white guilt, romanticising less atrocious and brutal settler‐colonial attitudes (even just hoping form a different portrayal, however inaccurate) — what it portrays is pretty accurate. In short, aside fo…