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The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Corporation ( Natsiec ) has described Oliver ’s book Billy and the Epic Escape as damaging and disrespectful.
The 400 -page fantasy novel features a young First Nations girl living in foster care in an Indigenous community near Alice Springs .
The body's chief executive, Sharon Davis , said the book perpetuated harmful stereotypes, trivialised complex and painful histories and “ignores the violent oppression of First Nations people” Neither author nor publisher has committed to withdrawing the book from sale.
Dr Anita Heiss , a Wiradyuri author and publisher-at-large at Simon & Schuster’s First Nations imprint, Bundyi Publishing , said there is no space in Australian publishing for our stories to be told through a colonial lens.
Penguin Random House UK said its Australian arm PRH Australia was in no way involved in the content or publication of the book, which was distributed into Australia as part of its global PRH network.
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