Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal AustraliaJon C. Altman, Melinda Hinkson Edited by Jon Altman, Director of the ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, and Melinda Hinkson, Lecturer in Anthropology at the ANU, this book is an urgent critical response to the government's actions. A wide range of authors contextualise the crisis facing remote Aboriginal communities and the government's most recent response in light of the history of and wider policy towards Aboriginal Australia. The book considers how the rhetoric of emergency excludes such questions as whether the government itself is complicit in the state of remote Aboriginal communities; how the approach to tackling child sexual abuse dovetails with the government's broader goals in Indigenous affairs; the long-term effects of the government's actions; and alternative responses to the Anderson/Wild report. |
Contents
A NATIONAL EMERGENCY? | 13 |
Whatever Happened to Reconciliation? | 21 |
Reconciliation and the Failure | 31 |
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Aboriginal and Torres Aboriginal children Aboriginal Economic Policy Aboriginal Land Rights alcohol Alice Springs approach areas ATSIC Australian Government Australian National University Brough Canberra Cape York CDEP cent Centre for Aboriginal child abuse child sexual abuse Children are Sacred Commonwealth Darwin emergency response ENDNOTES family violence funding healing health checks housing Howard Government Howard Government's human rights Indigenous Affairs Indigenous Australians Indigenous communities infrastructure institutions intervention issues John Howard Land Council Land Rights Northern land tenure leases legislation Little Children mainstream Mal Brough Maningrida measures Media Release national emergency native title neo-liberal Noel Pearson non-Indigenous Northern Territory Government NT Government organisations outstations permit system petrol sniffing political Prime Minister problems programs Rangers recognition recommendations regional remote communities Rights Northern Territory Sacred report self-determination settler society social strategies Torres Strait Islander town camps townships welfare Yuendumu