After more than two hundred years, one of the most important moral issues facing Australian society in the 1990s remains the need for reconciliation with its indigenous people. In this selection of essays, H. C. Coombs reflects on the nature of Aboriginal identity and the importance of autonomy for Australiaas Aboriginal people. He also suggests strategies by which self-determination might be achieved in practice. Many of the chapters have been written especially for this volume - including one in which Dr Coombs makes a thoughtful and provocative contribution to the Mabo debate, linking the High Courtas historic 1992 decision on native title to prospects for Aboriginal autonomy. Dr Coombs writes with the conviction that mainstreama Australia stands to gain as much, if not more, than Aboriginal people from the fulfilment of Aboriginal aspirations. It is a personal and passionate plea for a just society, from one of white Australia's most influential and eloquent advocates of self-determination for its indigenous people.
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'... fine blend of academic (mainly anthropological) writing and a passionate political plea for a just society in which there must be room for autonomy for the indigenous population.' Bijdragen
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One of the most important moral issues facing Australian society is the need for reconciliation with its indigenous people. In these essays H. C. Coombs reflects on the nature of Aboriginal identity and the importance of autonomy for Australia's Aboriginal people. The book is a personal plea for a just society, from one of White Australia's most influential advocates of self-determination for its indigenous people.
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In the early eighties I worked with Maria Brandl, an anthropologist, and Warren Snowdon, a teacher and political activist, on a project to prepare for the Minister for Social Security, Senator Margaret Guilfoyle, a volume to help public servants and others involved with Aboriginal people and their children understand something of those among whom they were to work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
town campers, land rights legislation, black bureaucracy, homeland movement, native title legislation, homeland communities, homeland settlements, radical title, land rights movement, traditional owners, land council, pastoral industry, law council, white occupation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Territory, High Court, Commonwealth Government, New Zealand, East Kimberley, Eva Valley, Western Australia, Alice Springs, Aboriginal Australians, Royal Commission, South Australia, Treaty of Waitangi, Australian National University, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Prime Minister, Tangentyere Council, Australian Government Publishing Service, East Arnhem Land, United Nations, Second World War, British Crown, Central Land Council, Commonwealth of Australia, Law Reform Commission, National Aboriginal Conference New!
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In the early eighties I worked with Maria Brandl, an anthropologist, and Warren Snowdon, a teacher and political activist, on a project to prepare for the Minister for Social Security, Senator Margaret Guilfoyle, a volume to help public servants and others involved with Aboriginal people and their children understand something of those among whom they were to work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
town campers, land rights legislation, black bureaucracy, homeland movement, native title legislation, homeland communities, homeland settlements, radical title, land rights movement, traditional owners, land council, pastoral industry, law council, white occupation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Territory, High Court, Commonwealth Government, New Zealand, East Kimberley, Eva Valley, Western Australia, Alice Springs, Aboriginal Australians, Royal Commission, South Australia, Treaty of Waitangi, Australian National University, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Prime Minister, Tangentyere Council, Australian Government Publishing Service, East Arnhem Land, United Nations, Second World War, British Crown, Central Land Council, Commonwealth of Australia, Law Reform Commission, National Aboriginal Conference New!
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- Our Common Future (Oxford Paperbacks) by World Commission On Environment and Development on page 92, and Back Matter
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- Aborigines and Diamond Mining: The Politics of Resource Development in the East Kimberley by M. C. Dillon in Back Matter
- The Destruction of Aboriginal Society (Pelican) by C.D. Rowley in Back Matter
- Education Policy (International Library of Comparative Public Policy, 12) by James Marshall in Back Matter
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- The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices by Elazar Barkan in Back Matter
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