<p style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Mark McKenna chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Return to Uluru.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:</p>
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<li>How Mark McKenna scoured archives, museum storerooms and even household garages to uncover new evidence that challenged the official record.</li>
<li>Why Return to Uluru focuses on the 1934 shooting of an Indigenous man at a sacred waterhole near Uluru. </li>
<li>How Mark treated Constable McKinnon’s memoir admission as a moral and ethical crux.</li>
<li>Why Return to Uluru begins in the Central Australian landscape.</li>
<li>How Mark framed the narrative as truth-telling, using the murder to invite reflection on Australia’s broader Indigenous–settler history.</li>
<li>Why memory is unstable and partial and how people reshape past events into multiple plausible truths.</li>
<li>Mark argues that all history and biography must be continually reinterpreted in the light of new evidence.</li>
<li>Why Mark believes a biographer’s role is relentless questioning, never taking records at face value and always probing why, why, why behind every account.</li>
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Biographer Gabriella Kelly-Davies chats with biographers across the world about the myriad of choices they make while researching, writing and publishing life stories. In every episode, she explores elements of narrative strategy such as structure, use of fiction techniques, facts and truth, beginnings and endings and to what extent the writer interpreted the evidence rather than providing clues and leaving it to readers to do the interpreting themselves. She also asks how they researched their books; how they balanced a subject’s public, personal and inner lives; and ethical issues, such as privacy and revealing secrets.

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