Mother's Apron Strings: 'Operation Buffalo' and the Discomfort with Australian History

A dramatisation of the mid-twentieth-century British nuclear tests at Maralinga, the 2020 miniseries recounts the devastating fallout experienced by the nearby Aboriginal inhabitants, the soldiers on the base and Australia as a whole, while also devoting a lighter approach to the bureaucratic bungling behind the scenes. As Cameron Williams writes, Operation Buffalo isn't shy about digging into the darker aspects of Australia's relationship with the United Kingdom, then and now.

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Ewen Leslie, James Cromwell, Jessica De Gouw, Robert Menzies, Maralinga Tjarutja, ASIO, British Empire, 'God Save the Queen', Indigenous, Aboriginal, Chernobyl, Australia Day