Aboriginal orthodoxy in Canada / Tom Flanagan -- The poverty of Aboriginal self-determination / Gary Johns -- The new authoritarian separatism / Trevor Satour -- The most threatened people in Australia: the remote Aboriginal minority / Steven Etherington -- 'This is as much as we can do': Aboriginal domestic violence / Stephanie Jarrett -- Are we headed in the right direction? / Helen McLaughlin -- Sceptical thoughts on customary law / Kenneth Maddock
Summary
The author writes about his time as a Member of the House of Representatives in 1990 when Australia's infamous Coronation Hill dispute was brought to his attention. Gary Johns and other noted experts - two of them Aborigines - examine the damage being done to Aboriginal people by past and present policies