Foreword -- Acronyms & Abbreviations -- Introduction -- -- Part I. -- Recognising 'populations' and 'peoples' -- -- 1. Recognising 'peoples' and 'populations' -- -- Part II. -- Evoking people-hood -- -- 2. Hasluck and Elkin -- -- 3. Strehlow damns Coombs -- -- 4. The South Australian land rights debate of 1966 -- -- 5. The politics of enumerating the Stolen Generations -- -- Part III. -- Critical reflections on political capacity -- -- 6. The changing cultural constitution of the Indigenous sector -- -- 7. The ambivalence of Helen Hughes -- -- Part IV. -- Thinking historically about 1967-76
8. Noel Pearson's economic history -- -- 9. Peter Sutton and the historical roots of suffering -- -- 10. The Coombs experiment -- -- Part V. -- The appeal of quantification -- -- 11. The Australian Reconciliation Barometer -- Notes
Summary
In the early 1970s, Australian governments began to treat Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders as 'peoples' with capacities for self-government. Forty years later, confidence in Indigenous self-determination has been eroded by accounts of Indigenous pathology, of misplaced policy optimism and persistent socio-economic 'gaps'. In this collection of new and revised essays, Tim Rowse accounts for this shift by arguing that Australian thinking about 'Indigenous' is a continuing, unresolvable tussle between the idea of 'peoples' and 'population'
