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Trapped by History: The Indigenous-State Relationship in Australia

Trapped by History: The Indigenous-State Relationship in Australia

Cronin, Darryl

Hardcover

Series: Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures

AnthropologyDeath & DyingIndigenous Studies

ISBN10: 1786611457
ISBN13: 9781786611451
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Apr 15 2021
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Australian nation has reached an impasse in Indigenous policy and practice and fresh strategies and perspectives are required. Trapped by History highlights a fundamental issue that the Australian nation must confront to develop a genuine relationship with Indigenous Australians.
The existing relationship between Indigenous people and the Australian state was constructed on the myth of an empty land - terra nullius. Interactions with Indigenous people have been constrained by eighteenth-century assumptions and beliefs that Indigenous people did not have organised societies, had neither land ownership nor a recognisable form of sovereignty, and that they were 'savage' but could be 'civilized' through the erasure of their culture. These incorrect assumptions and beliefs are the foundation of the legal, constitutional and political treatment of Indigenous Australians over the course of the country's history. They remain ingrained in governmental institutions, Indigenous policy making, judicial decision making and contemporary public attitudes about Indigenous people.

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