Benevolence Ellen van Neerven who save the animals from

who save the animals from a bushfire

From Magabala’s First Nations • First Knowledges series

have an important football match that evening – professional recruiters are in town

But he’s got another reason to return home – he’s working to broker a deal with a mining company to dig up his own sacred land and hopefully get them all out of poverty forever

to navigate heartache and to provoke stillness and introspection

Benevolence Ellen van Neerven who save the animals fromSHORTLISTED, 2022 BARBARA JEFFERIS AWARD LONGLISTED, 2021 THE VOSS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTED, 2020 MARK & EVETTE MORAN NIB LITERARY AWARD At the time of its original release in 2020, Benevolence was celebrated as a refreshing response to colonial narratives of the frontier. A welcome new take on Australian historical fiction, Darug writer Julie Jansons storytelling through the lives of her women ancestors continues to provoke conversations about the