This book analyses administrative struggle and resistance, from the late 1960s through to the present day, in land purchases for Aboriginal communities. It is based on information and material which has never been available for public scrutiny before.
Political, legal and bureaucratic problems of implementation of land purchases from 1960s to present day; contradictions of land rights demands in Capitalist Australia; major phases of Aborigianal Land Fund Commission s life; Department of Aboriginal Affairs relations with A.L.F…
About the proceedings of a two-day conference in Townsville, Queensland, August 1993, to celebrate the International Year for the World's Indigenous People.
This is the first exploration of modern Australian social anthropology to examine the forces that helped shaped its formation. Geoffrey Gray reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology as an academic discipline in Australia. He argues that anthropologists had …
A Matter of life and death: contemporary Aboriginal mortality : proceedings o…
by Gray, Alan, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (Australia), Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
fromAustralian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island…
Proceedings of a workshop held at Kioloa, New South Wales, Australia, 10-12 July 1989. Topic was Aboriginal mortality; regular, accurate statistics are essential to assess progress on Aboriginal health development.