Tess Lea Knihy

A book about the textures, colours, sounds and frontier stories of Darwin, Australia's smallest and least-known capital city. It is a place that has to be felt to be known. Readers will sense the heat, the birds, the frogs, the mosquitoes, the architecture and the logistical infrastructure that keep the moon-base that is Darwin alive.

Drawing on case studies from infrastructure, health, housing, education and vernacular multi-media initiatives across regional and remote Australia, Lea asks a beguilingly simple question: can there be good Indigenous social policy under liberal settler colonialism?--