Modern Australian

'You don't belong to my country either.' How two Noongar boys spoke up, a world away from home

  • Written by Liz Conor, ARC Future Fellow, La Trobe University
'You don't belong to my country either.' How two Noongar boys spoke up, a world away from homeAn engraving of Dirimera and Conaci by Giuseppe Mochetti taken from a daguerreotype of April 5 1852. Acc no 77930P . With acknowledgements to the Archives of the Benedictine Community of New Norcia.

In June 1849, a military formation charged through the streets of Paris. Mounted guns rumbled past, horses shied and pawed the ground – and, from...