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Author Gale, Peter, 1957- author

Title The politics of fear : lighting the Wik / Peter Gale
Published Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. : Pearson Education, [2005]
©2005
©2005

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Description v, 188 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Discourse on race and the politics of perception -- Native title and the politics of fer -- Reconciliation and the politics of race -- Multiculturalism and the politics of discontent -- Immigration and the politics of division -- Images of australia in Asia -- From Wik to Woomera
Summary This volume focuses on racism and the generation of fear that has become a feature of the political scene in western nation states. In the Australian context such fears centre on a range of rights and issues such as native title, reconciliation, along with social policy on multiculturalsim, immigration and asylum seekers
Analysis Racial discrimination
Fear
Human rights
Political conditions
Immigration
Multiculturalism
Aboriginal land rights
Aboriginal reconciliation
Foreign opinion about Australia
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes index and bibliography (pages 163-182)
Audience For tertiary students
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy.
Race relations -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Australia.
Race relations.
Refugees -- Government policy -- Australia.
Social justice -- Australia.
Wik-Mungkan (Australian people) -- Claims.
Native title (Australia)
Multiculturalism -- Australia.
Racism -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 2001-
Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 1990-2001
Australia -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311
Australia -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
LC no. 2005440673
ISBN 0733970249 :