Fighting Hard

Richard Broome is Emeritus Professor of History at La Trobe University. He is involved in the community history movement as the President of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and has for decades lectured to secondary students about Aboriginal history. Richard is the author of many articles and fifteen books on Australian history and is noted for his prize-winning Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 (2005), and Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788, now in its fifth edition (2019). Aboriginal Studies Press has published two books by Richard Broome, A Man of All Tribes: The Life of Alick Jackomos (2006) and Fighting Hard: The Victorian Aborigines Advancement League (2015). The press has also published a book edited by Ben Silverstein, on Richard Broome's contributions to Aboriginal history, Conflict, Adaptation, Transformation (2018).