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dc.contributor.editorRademaker, Laura
dc.contributor.editorRowse, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-20T15:29:36Z
dc.date.available2020-10-20T15:29:36Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20201020_9781760463786_4
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42654
dc.description.abstractHistories of the colonisation of Australia have recognised distinct periods or eras in the colonial relationship: 'protection' and ‘assimilation’. It is widely understood that, in 1973, the Whitlam Government initiated a new policy era: ‘self-determination’. Yet, the defining features of this era, as well as how, why and when it ended, are far from clear. In this collection we ask: how shall we write the history of self-determination? How should we bring together, in the one narrative, innovations in public policy and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander initiatives? How (dis)continuous has ‘self-determination’ been with ‘assimilation’ or with what came after? Among the contributions to this book there are different views about whether Australia is still practising ‘self-determination’ and even whether it ever did or could. This book covers domains of government policy and Indigenous agency including local government, education, land rights, the outstation movement, international law, foreign policy, capital programs, health, public administration, mission policies and the policing of identity. Each of the contributors is a specialist in his/her topic. Few of the contributors would call themselves ‘historians’, but each has met the challenge to consider Australia’s recent past as an era animated by ideas and practices of Indigenous self-determination.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAboriginal History Monographs
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific historyen_US
dc.subject.otherself-determination
dc.subject.otherIndigenous
dc.subject.otherAboriginal
dc.subject.otherrights
dc.subject.otherpolitics
dc.titleIndigenous Self-Determination in Australia
dc.title.alternativeHistories and Historiography
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.22459/ISA.2020
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.imprintANU Press
oapen.pages368
oapen.place.publicationCanberra


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