Liz Conor

Liz Conor is an Associate Professor in History at La Trobe University and an ARC Future Fellow and Chief Investigator on the Graphic Encounters: Prints of Indigenous Australians project. She is the author of Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women (UWAP, 2016) and The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s (Indiana University Press, 2004). She is former editor of the Aboriginal History Journal, a commentator across many media platforms, and co-founder (with Deborah Hart) of the Climate Guardians.

Articles by Liz Conor:

21 March 202421 March 2024 · History

White Lies: Netanyahu’s propaganda war on Gaza

Liz Conor

First Nation people, who don’t live out their lives under the widespread amnesia over colonial offensives, see the disparity in casualities for what it is. Disproportionate and indiscriminate violence is a hallmark of settler-colonialism to any form of Indigenous resistance, redress or revenge.

25 August 202327 August 2023 · Friday Features

‘I write for my Countrymen’: William Dampier and the birth of a racist trope

Liz Conor

Through hundreds of retellings, the imprints and reprints from Dampier’s publications—the earliest documented British incursion onto Indigenous lands—entrenched ‘truths’ about Aboriginal Australians. It was not until 1709 that all of Dampier's volumes had appeared and they’re quite a muddle of editions, volumes and parts. He assures his readers, however, that he has been ‘exactly and strictly careful to give on True relations and descriptions.’ In fact these are eye-wateringly derogatory by today’s standards.