"Forgetting Aborigines" explores a central paradox in Australian history: Aborigines are often remembered as absent in the face of a continuing and actual indigenous historical presence. Chris Healy argues that in the ways we remember our history, Aborigines keep disappearing. They are present and central at certain moments but then fade from memory. Aboriginal issues can be on the front page for weeks prompting white Australians to ask questions like, 'why weren't we told?' and then recede again. The book examines ways in which we can stop this dishonest and destructive cycle.

Chris Healy explores the entanglements that emerge from various encounters between white and Indigenous peoples since the 1960s. The book draws on the extraordinary cultural production emerging from the domain of Aboriginality in painting, film, photography, exhibition, performance, poetry, fiction and much more. Alongside key political and social landmarks of the past 40 years, "Forgetting Aborigines" makes personal, reflective and intellectual observations about the ways in which we remember and forget and how we might make Aboriginality meaningful and visible in Australia.