Provides a commentary with resonances surrounding identity, dispossession, memory and community. Based within the lands of the Gunditchmurra of Victoria, the author ranges across the national contemporary stage, critiquing Australian complacency and ignorance, or rather the grea…
Convincing Ground is a wide-ranging, personal and powerful work which resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community.
"Long before the word 'genocide' was coined, the British invasion of Australia had annihilated approximately nine-tenths of the continent's original population of Aborigines. The creation of white Australia depended upon the legal fiction of 'terra nullius'--no man's land--the c…
Reviews the general structure of Aboriginal policy in each country followed by an examination of child welfare policy in each. Concludes with a comparison of similarities and differences. Includes tables of child welfare and related statistics.
The aboriginal people of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand became minorities in their own countries in the nineteenth century. The expanding British Empire had its own vision for the future of these peoples, which was expressed in 1837 by the Select Committee on Aborigines of t…