'And there'll be NO dancing' : perspectives on policies impacting indigenous Australia since 2007 / edited by Elisabeth Baehr and Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
Published
Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017
Table of Contents; Tables, Figures and Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One: The Intervention; Chapter Two: The Seven Pillars of Aboriginal Exception to the Australian State; Chapter Three: Sporting Intervention; Chapter Four: Change from the Ground up; Chapter Five: The Intervention, Stronger Futures and Racial Discrimination; Chapter Six: Rampant Misrepresentation; Chapter Seven: Stories of the Intervention; Chapter Eight: A "Place to Start"; Chapter Nine: The Intervention in Indigenous Literature
Chapter Ten: Reassessing Indigenous Self-Determination in Rolf de Heer's Charlie's Country (2014)Chapter Eleven: "An Australian Government Initiative: Criminal"; Chapter Twelve: Imposed Solutions versus Local Aspirations; Chapter Thirteen: The Protector of Aborigines in Colonial Western Australia; Chapter Fourteen: "Who Are the Aborigines?"; Contributors; Index
Summary
Just prior to the federal election of 2007, the Australian government led by John Howard decreed the "Northern Territory National Emergency Response", commonly known as the Intervention, officially in reaction to an investigation by the Northern Territory government into allegedly rampant sexual abuse and neglect of Indigenous children. The emergency laws authorised the Australian government to drastically intervene in the self-determination of Indigenous communities in contravention of the UN Declaration of Human Rights and of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Far from improving the living con
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