The politics of suffering : indigenous Australia and the end of the liberal consensus / Peter Sutton
- Bib ID:
- 4592706
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Sutton, Peter, 1946-
- Description:
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- Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2009
- xii, 268 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780522856361
- Summary:
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Have Australian Aboriginal communities become places of increased suffering because of the progressive policies of the 1970s-2000s? Australia's leading anthropologist, Peter Sutton, looks at these decades of optimism and grief and argues that there has not been a better quality of life for Indigenous Australians.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- National Library of Australia's N copy is signed by the author.
- Bibliography: p. 240-262.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy
- Government policy
- Crime - Against persons
- Law enforcement - Offences - Assault
- Socioeconomic conditions
- Health - Policy and administration
- Family - Violence
- Race relations - Reconciliation
- Law enforcement - Offences - Murder
- Government policy - Self determination
- Wik people (Qld SD54)
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
- Aurukun (Qld NW Cape York SD54-07)
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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