This book conveys in poetry and striking reproductions the forgotten story of Australia in the last 200 years. The story of the interaction of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. It is about brutality, arrogance, honest misunderstandings, occasional decencies and continuing unresolved problems. In this creative contribution towards national reconciliation, poet Geoff Page and artist Bevan Hayward (Pooaraar) combine their significant talents in an effort to end 'the great forgetting'.