W. E. H. StannerOne of Australia's finest essayists, W. E. H. Stanner was the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians. 'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' Marcia Langton W. E. H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures, he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the