Aboriginal affairs : a short history / Max Griffths
- Bib ID:
- 809424
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Griffiths, Max
- Description:
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- Kenthurst, N.S.W. : Kangaroo Press, 1995
- 328 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0864177291 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Popular account of Indigenous affairs; policies of the Governors and the British Parliament; conflict with pastoralists; protection policy; missions; founding of the Commonwealth of Australia; Bleakley report and the conference on Aboriginal affairs of 1929, and its impact on welfare legislation passed in the 1930s; effects of World War 1 on policy; formal recognition of Aborigines by the Commonwealth in 1948 through the Nationality and Citizenship Act, when Aborgines were declared British subjects and Australian citizens; Paul Hasluck as Minister for Territories; 1961 state and federal ministers' conference on Aboriginal affairs; 1967 referendum and the attitudes of politician's of the time to Aboriginal affairs; policy of self-determination; land rights; Aboriginal affairs in Queensland during Whitlam and Fraser years; Noonkenbah; rise of the 'black bureaucracy'; 'Foundations for the Future' policy of the bicentennial year, which included social justice policy and the creation of ATSIC; Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody; Mabo decision in 1992; race relations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations -- History
- Government policy - Assimilation - 1951-1971
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Government policy - Assimilation
- Government policy - Assimilation - 1926-1950
- Government policy - Self determination
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism
- Politics and Government - Political parties
- Land rights
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1788-1850
- Colonisation
- Government policy - Self determination - 1993-2004
- Government policy - Self determination - 1972-1984
- Government policy - Self determination - 1985-1992
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1901-1925
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1851-1900
- Queensland (Qld)
- Northern Territory (NT)
- Noonkanbah / Yungngora (WA West Kimberley SE51-12)
- Australia
- Also Titled:
- Cover subtitle: Short history, 1788-1995
- Copyright:
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