Archive for the ‘Australia’ Category
Tahlia Maslin, ‘Aboriginal Relations and Policy in Australia and Canada: From Handout to Hand-up’, Frontier Centre for Public Policy Backgrounder 85 (2010). via indigenouspeoplesissues Abstract: The Australian referendum of 1967 approved amendments to the Australian Constitution which allowed the Federal Government to make special laws that applied to Aboriginal Australians. As a result, since 1967, […]
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freshly ground black people
Rachel Olding, ‘Penguin reprints book, peppered with an error, wants it to be taken with grain of salt’, SMH: The publishing company was forced to pulp and reprint 7000 copies of Pasta Bible last week after a recipe called for “salt and freshly ground black people” – instead of pepper – to be added to […]
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David S. Trigger and Cameo Dalley, ‘Negotiating Indigeneity: Culture, Identity and Politics’, Reviews in Anthropology 39, 1 (2010). Abstract: Defining “indigeneity” has recently been approached with renewed vigor. While the field can involve quite passionate commitment to advocacy among scholars, theoretical clarity is needed in understanding just who might be thought of as indigenous, and […]
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Desmond Manderson, ‘Not Yet: Aboriginal People and the Deferral of the Rule of Law’, Arena, October 2009. From the ‘War on Terror’ to Malaya and Pakistan the language of ‘emergency’ has been used to suspend legal principles. Closer to home, legislation enacted in August 2007 has profoundly changed the treatment of large numbers of Aboriginal […]
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Margaret D. Jacobs, White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940, Univeristy of Nebraska Press, 2009. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state […]
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Katherine Ellinghaus, ‘Biological Absorption and Genocide: A Comparison of Indigenous Assimilation Policies in the United States and Australia’, Genocide Studies and Prevention 4, 1 (April 2009): 59–79. Abstract: This article examines biological absorption (the imagined process by which indigenous identity would disappear through interracial sexual liaisons) and its relationship to the assimilation policies of the […]
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mate helps
‘Mate Helps’, Herald, 1961. This came up in a presentation delivered by Jane Lydon last fortnight at the Gender and Settler Colonialism symposium. It is discussed and contextualised in her recent book, Fantastic Dreaming: The Archaeology of and Aboriginal Mission, Altamira Press, 2009. Many thanks to Jane for letting me share it on the blog.
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From the University of Queensland: The long-lost works of one of Australia’s leading early anthropologists have been discovered in the shed of a northern New South Wales cattleman. The groundbreaking works of Caroline Tennant-Kelly, close friend of the famed American anthropologist Margaret Mead, were believed destroyed until uncovered by the detective work of a dogged […]
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The Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements (ATNS) project is an ARC Linkage project examining treaty and agreement-making with Indigenous Australians and the nature of the cultural, social and legal rights encompassed by past, present and potential agreements and treaties. The project also examines the process of implementation and the wider factors that promote long term […]
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I recently came across Carolyn Lake’s review of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, and found it interesting. As she writes in her article “Colonial Nation”: Although Drover is at home on the land, Sarah is not. The character of Neil Fletcher reminds us of this when he remarks on Sarah’s arrival in Darwin: “She won’t last, a delicate English […]
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