Archive for the ‘Australia’ Category
K. N. Gulson and R. J. Parkes, “From the barrel of the gun: policy incursions, land, and Aboriginal peoples in Australia” Environment and Planning 42(2), 2010, 300 – 313. Abstract: This paper focuses on the enduring traces of colonialism within the Australian nation-state and the ongoing challenges to Aboriginal peoples’ rights, especially land rights. We try to […]
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Richard Broome, author of the survey history Aboriginal Australians, has recently released a new and updated version for Allen and Unwin Press, featuring coverage right up to the Intervention, and engagement with more recent scholars. In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew […]
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Penny Edmonds has recently published Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities with UBC Press. From their website comes the following details: Colonial frontiers were not confined to the bush, backwoods, or borderlands. Early towns and cities in the far reaches of empire were crucial to the settler colonial project. The […]
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Some more details about the round table on settler colonialism at the University of Technology, Sydney (3 May 2010) have come to hand. Have a read through the abstracts: Dr. Lorenzo Veracini Queen Elizabeth II Fellow Institute for Social Research Swinburne University of Technology Decolonising Settler Colonialism This paper contributes to interdisciplinary reflection on decolonisation […]
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Tim Rowse and Len Smith, “The Limits of ‘Elimination’ in the Politics of Population”, Australian Historical Studies 41, 1 (2010): Abstract Has Australian colonisation tended to ‘eliminate’ the Indigenous presence? The Australian government did not enact the logic of elimination—by ceasing to enumerate people as Indigenous Australians—when the referendum in 1967 showed popular support for […]
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Mark Finnane and Fiona Paisley, “Police Violence and the Limits of Law on a Late Colonial Frontier”, Law and History Review 28, 2010. ABSTRACT: The dependence of colonization on police was a core feature both of settler colonies and of colonial dependencies, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the post–World War I decline […]
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Part of the global shift towards being a “First” person across the settler world (that perhaps began with the UNPFII notes), Indigenous peoples in Queensland will soon be officially recognised as First Queenslanders. From ABC Online: Queensland Parliament has passed legislation to insert a preamble into the State Constitution. The preamble will recognise the Indigenous […]
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I’ve had considerable difficulty finding more details about the book launched yesterday in Sydney by former Federal Court judge, Murray Wilcox, entitled Kimberley at the Crossroads: The Case Against the Gas Plant. This from ABC Online: “It’s a funny situation isn’t it, that Aboriginal people are expected to give up their cultural heritage for the […]
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The Northern Territory intervention has allowed the Australian government to experiment with ‘quarantined’ welfare provision – by rolling out ‘Basics cards’ – in the region. Today the ABC has published an interview in which the system is called ‘apartheid-like’ – although this type of rhetoric has been around since 2008 (see rollbacktheintervention). The comparison of […]
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Just last week, I posted on the topic of Noel Pearson and native title. Unfortunately, I had to rely on the ABC’s sources for the speech contents. Today I have discovered that the Cape York Institute has published a transcript of the speech online, and can be found here. I will post some clippings below […]
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