From an episode of Uncommon Sense∙Presented by Amy Mullins
Interview
‘Best We Forget: The War for White Australia’ on Uncommon Sense
Peter Cochrane is an historian and renowned novelist. His latest book, Best We Forget: The War for White Australia 1914-1918, is a harrowing and eye-opening account of twentieth-century Australia’s grossly racist and discriminatory policies. He phoned in to Uncommon Sense to chat with Amy Mullins about this often-shunned chapter in our nation’s history and how the early Commonwealth Government’s explicit fear of East Asia dictated international diplomacy, war efforts and attempts to achieve racial homogeny.

Listen to ‘Best We Forget: The War for White Australia’ on Uncommon Sense27:04∙4 September 2018∙