The burden of culture : how to dismantle the Aboriginal industry and give hope to its victims / Gary Johns
- Bib ID:
- 10027826
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Johns, Gary, 1952-, author
- Edition:
- Reprint.
- Description:
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- Balmain, NSW : Quadrant Books, 2023
- © 2022
- 516 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780648996163 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"Australia is not a black and white society. Aborigines are less black, and the remainder are less white. Aboriginal colonisation. the attempt to engineer a reverse takeover of Australia through a language of untouchability, reconciliation, spirituality, recognition and acknowledgement does not address the needs of the minority of Aborigines, perhaps 20 percent of the Aboriginal population, who are living in despair. They have been asked to build a new Jerusalem with depleted human capital on poor lands and with ancient political and cultural habits. This captive minority needs to reach out, literally, but their leaders are preventing them from doing so. The Aboriginal industry aims to isolate their captives more than 230 years after the rest of the world discovered Australia and changed it forever. This is a cruel neo-colonial endeavour as destructive as the colonial endeavour but without the payoff of a better life. The industry hides the bigger truth - that most Aborigines have integrated into the wider society and are doing well, if belatedly." -Back cover.
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- ICIP notice:
- This material contains Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations people. Restrictions on access and use of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [459]-503) and index.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Social justice -- Australia
- Social planning -- Australia
- Poor -- Government policy -- Australia
- Closing the Gap (Government program)
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- 21st century
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of %y 21st century
- Race relations
- Non-governmental organizations -- Australia -- Political activity
- Political activists -- Australia -- Attitudes
- Elite (Social sciences) -- Australia -- Attitudes
- Native title (Australia)
- Reconciliation -- Australia
- Representative government and representation -- Australia
- Australian
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- Publication date:
- 2022
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