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Title

Coercive reconciliation : stabilise, normalise, exit Aboriginal Australia / edited by Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson.

Publication

North Carlton, Australia : Arena Publications Association, 2007

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Additional Authors

• Altman, Jon C., 1954-
• Hinkson, Melinda

Description

ix, 342 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Summary

In the wake of the release of the 'Little Children are Sacred' report, the Howard government has declared a national emergency and mobilised a coalition of police, army and others to tackle child sexual abuse in remote Aboriginal Australia. This book is an urgent critical response to the government's actions.

Subject

• Geschichte 1990-2007
• Aboriginal Australians > Government relations
• Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions
• Reconciliation > Political aspects > Australia
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
• Australia > Race relations
• Australia > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: In the name of the child -- Part One: A national emergency The emergency we had to have Larissa Behrendt -- Whatever happened to reconciliation? Patrick Dodson -- Reconciliation and the failure of neo-liberal globalisation -- Military humanitariansim in Australia's north Guy Rundle -- The national emergency and indigenous jurisdictions Tim Rowse -- The political economy of self-government Will Sanders -- The political vulnerability of the unrepented Michael Mansell -- Bully in the playground: a new stolen generation? Mick Dodson -- Arguing over indigenous rights: Australia and the United Nations Megan Davis -- Part Two: Little children are sacred Unforseen circumstances Rex Wild -- "Little children" and big sticks Ernest Hunter -- Health policy for a crisis or a crisis in policy? Ian Anderson -- Healing and public policy Gregory Phillips -- Indigenous approaches to child abuse Judy Atkinson -- Don't crash the ambulance Kay Boulden and John Morton -- Part Three: Stabilise and normalise Demograpphy is destiny, except in the Northrn Territorty John Taylor -- Out from the shadow of prohibition Maggie Brady -- Youth well-being in central Australia Tristan Ray -- The Trojan Horse Pat Turner and Nicole Watson -- The abnormalisation of Land Tenure David Dalrymple -- Patent medicine and the elixir of home ownership Michael Dillon -- Saying no to $60 million William Tilmouth -- Permits protect David Ross -- Caring for country Joe Morrison -- Monday in Maningrida -- Part Four: Exit -- Tackling child abuse and inequality Tom Calma -- The 'innocence' of the settler imagination John Hinkson -- The moral force of reconciliation Raimond Gaita -- In the name of the market? Jon Altman -- Appendix In their own words national emergency response media timeline Melissa Johns.

ISBN

• 0980415802
• 9780980415803

LCCN

^^2008353784

OCLC

• 173721384
• SCSB-11425468

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library