Tag: Indigenous Australians
Doing the sums on the contribution made by traditional Aboriginal economies
The justice process is tied to telling stories and to telling the truth. All around the world, victims of human-rights abuse are judged on their stories.
Bill Gammage, The Biggest Estate on Earth Allen and Unwin, 2011
John Hinkson's introduction to Issue 37/38 (2012): Stolen Lands, Broken Cultures: The Settler-Colonial Present
A new report shows how Intervention measures are criminalising Indigenous drivers By Maggie Knight
Why the West continues to devastate Aboriginal cultures Jon Hinkson
On the ground in Mount Nancy Town Camp By Barbara Shaw
Women and children feel much safer now we are told. It is only when we go to the ground and recall that any relations between Aboriginal people and police in the present are built upon a deeply fraught history that the prospect of increased policing takes on a different inflection. By Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson
Peter Billings (ed.), Indigenous Australians and the Commonwealth Intervention, special issue of Law in Context (Federation Press, Sydney, 2011)
Cross-cultural diplomacy and the Intervention