Lands of shame : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 'homelands' in transition / Helen Hughes
- Bib ID:
- 3965700
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hughes, Helen, 1928-2013
- Description:
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- St Leonards, N.S.W. : Centre for Independent Studies, c2007
- xv, 237 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781864321357
- Summary:
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"Some 90,000 of Australia's 500,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders live appallingly deprived lives in 'homelands' throughout remote Australia. Their health and housing are so abysmal that their life expectation is 20 years shorter than that of other Australians. Deprived of education, they cannot access jobs even in settlements near mines and tourist resorts, leading to welfare dependency and consequent family and social dysfunction. The 'homelands' were created with the best of intentions. However, they not only have failed to provide a living for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, but they have stultified the development of traditional culture so that alcoholism and violence demean and destroy many lives. Lands of Shame analyses why the 'homelands' experiment has led to Third World living conditions in the midst of Australia's prosperity."
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 193-199.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians
- Torres Strait Islanders
- Aboriginal Australians -- Economic conditions
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Economic conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Social conditions
- Education
- Health services
- Socioeconomic conditions - Social deprivation
- Economics - Income
- Family - Violence
- Housing
- Employment - Unemployment
- Politics and Government - Governance
- Land rights
- Demography
- Government policy - Mainstreaming - Shared responsibility agreements
- Socioeconomic conditions
- Politics and Government - Local government
- Outstations / Homelands movement
- Councils - Land Councils
- Health
- Other authors/contributors:
- Centre for Independent Studies (Australia)
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