| Description |
318 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Aboriginal Charter of Rights / Oodgeroo -- Introduction / Michelle Grattan -- Australia Day 2000 message / Sir William Deane -- An impasse or a relationship in the making? / Aden Ridgeway -- A personal reconciliation journey / Evelyn Scott -- Reconciling our differences / Frank Brennan -- Public opinion on reconciliation / Newspoll, Saulwick & Muller and Hugh Mackay -- A crossroads of conscience / Henry Reynolds -- The Redfern Park speech / Paul Keating -- Not just a challenge, an opportunity / Linda Burney -- The dark side of sport / Colin Tatz -- Practical reconciliation / John Howard -- Aboriginal communities and mineral resources: the Rio Tinto experience / Paul D. Wand -- What's the alternative? / Rick Farley -- This is my life / Mary Darkie -- Breaking the cycle / Boori Monty Pryor -- A new confidence / Robert Milliken -- The Stolen Generation / Robert Manne -- Forgive us our trespasses / Aban Contractor -- Reflections on race and reconciliation / Lillian Holt -- An opening to new seasons / Tim Costello -- A bitter wind / Drusilla Modjeska -- Aboriginal disadvantage / Noel Pearson -- Unfinished business / Kim Beazley -- A humbug-free zone / Peter Garrett |
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Negotiating co-existence / Djon Mundine -- Doubtful island / Hannah McGlade -- Reconciliation, law and the Constitution / Melissa Castan -- Does Australia have a human rights diplomacy? / Pera Wells -- Justice for all as long as you're white / Petro Georgiou -- Embracing new voices: reconciliation in Canada / Peter Jull -- Not much progress / Geoff Clark -- Reconcilation is a two-way street / P.P. McGuinness -- True stories and what we make of them / Inga Clendinnen -- The burden of the past in the present / Bain Attwood --The need for scepticism / Christopher Pearson -- Lingiari: until the chains are broken / Patrick Dodson -- Guilt, shame and collective responsibility / Raimond Gaita -- A journey of healing or a road to nowhere? / Lowitja O'Donoghue -- Symbolism and substance in the surge towards reconciliation / Gustav Nossal -- Draft declaration of reconciliation / Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation -- The dawn is at hand / Oodgeroo |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians - Government relations |
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Aboriginal Australians - Treatment of |
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Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions |
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Aboriginal reconciliation |
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Aborigines |
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Attitudes |
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Australia - Race relations |
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Cultural identity |
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Federal issue |
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National identity |
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Political influence |
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Racial discrimination |
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Social conditions |
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Social justice - Australia |
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State issue |
| Notes |
Includes contributions by Aden Ridgeway, John Howard, Kim Beazley and Petro Georgiou |
| Bibliography |
Websites: pages [315]-318 |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Reconciliation.
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Social justice -- Australia.
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Stolen generations (Australia)
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| Author |
Grattan, Michelle.
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| LC no. |
00344324 |
| ISBN |
1863951865 |
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