We call for a treaty / Judith Wright
- Bib ID:
- 1663487
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wright, Judith, 1915-2000
- Description:
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- Sydney : Collins/Fontana, 1985
- xv, 360 p. ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0006368999 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Traces background to development of concept of treaty, including early contact, Gove case, Tent Embassy, Coe's case, Land Rights Act; Aboriginal attitudes to treaty; concepts of Sovereignty in International Law; constitutional power of Commonwealth, including Koowarta case; violation of human rights to international context; report of Senate Committee; references throughout to FCAATSI, NAC.
- Full contents:
- Includes index
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 308-316.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Treaty Committee (Australia)
- Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
- Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Law - Land - State and Territory - Northern Territory
- Attitudes - Indigenous attitudes
- Law - Land - Commonwealth
- Law - Constitutional law - Treaty movement
- Politics and Government - Political action - Indigenous embassies and political missions - Tent Embassy, Parliament House, Canberra
- Law - International law
- Parliamentary Triangle (Canberra ACT SI55-16)
- Nhulunbuy / Gove (East Arnhem Land NT SD53-04)
- Nhulunbuy / Gove (East Arnhem Land NTSD53-04)
- Torres Strait Islands (Qld TSI SC54, SC55-05)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Aboriginal Treaty Committee (Australia)
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2070 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2000
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1985
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