Reviews of Fight for Liberty and Freedom: The origins of Australian Aboriginal activism

Brian McCoy, Eureka, June 2008
There are times in a nation's history when events combine to place particular moments in its collective memory. The Prime Minister's apology to the Stolen Generations on 13 February this year is likely to be one. Its timing, planning and execution moved the hearts of many Australians...Some significant events and the people who have shaped them can too easily be forgotten. The story of Fred Maynard is one.

Alison Holland, Australian Historical Studies, 39, 2008
As a non-Indigenous historian with deep interest in histories of Indigenous rights and Indigenous political ideology, I consider this book to be a very welcome addition to a growing library of works dealing with Indigenous rights...What it offers is a personal family story and a real sense of the other side of the bureaucratic divide.