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Author Coombs, H. C. (Herbert Cole), 1906-1997.

Title Issues in dispute : Aborigines working for autonomy / H.C. Coombs
Published Casuarina, N.T. : Published jointly by the North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University, and The Age and The Canberra Times, 1993

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 W'PONDS  305.89915 Coo/Iid  AVAILABLE
Description x, 52 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents Aborigines and mining: the issues in dispute -- Betrayal of trust: the Hawke government and land rights -- Black society is not mired in failure: the debate on Aboriginal affairs -- Aboriginal enterprises demand new criteria -- Aborigines are greening Australia's 'dead' centre -- Miriwoong on the way back -- Aborigines tackling present and future: what the traditional land owners are doing to protect their resources -- What happened to self determination? -- Aborigines have to weigh ATSIC carefully -- New cause for Aboriginal concern in federal review
Summary Ten articles by Nugget Coombs which appeared in The Canberra Times and The Age between 1984 and 1990 discussing mining; national land rights; the NAC, NACC and ATSIC; arid zone agriculture at Ernabella and Alice Springs; the Miriwoong peoples contact experience; National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy and self-determination; federalism
Notes Bibliography; p. 46
Bibliography Bibliography: page 46
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Copy 3 donated by ATSIC Library
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Economic conditions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.
Author Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit.
LC no. 94103294
ISBN 0731515625
OTHER TI Age (Melbourne, Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50081613
Canberra times. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81115650