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Author Morris, Barry, author

Title Protest, land rights and riots : postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s / Barry Morris
Published Canberra, ACT : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2013
Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2013
©2013

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Description xii, 204 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Contents Chapter 1. Crisis of identity : aboriginal politics, the media and the law -- Chapter 2. Neoliberalism and indigenous rights in New South Wales -- Chapter 3. Firm government : state of seige -- Chapter 4. Postcolonial fantasy and anxiety in the north west -- Chapter 5. Police testimony and the Brewarrina riot trial -- Chapter 6. Aborigines behaving badly : legal realism and paternalism
Summary For a generation of Indigenous men and women, the decades following the 1970s produced a period of unprecedented political agency and legislative change in their struggles for recognition of postcolonial rights. Heightening these struggles was the background of great political and economic change. Rural communities, where significant Aboriginal populations continue to live, experienced major structural change resulting in social fragmentation and unparalleled unemployment. At the same time neoliberal political ideology emerged to reshape the state's role in the economy, redefining government programs and services. It was a period of intense political debate, struggle and conflict where new social forces were unleashed and clashed as a postsettler colonial state grappled with its past. In his new work, Barry Morris captures the dramatic changes in Indigenous recognition that occurred in the 1980s that were subsequently undermined by an emerging new political orthodoxy that overlapped and contested previous Indigenous policy in the early 1990s
Analysis Australian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
Postcolonialism -- Australia.
Author Bates, Albert, author of introduction, etc
LC no. 2013487143
ISBN 9781922059345
Other Titles Protest, land rights and riots : postcolonial struggles in Australia in the nineteen hundred and eighties