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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Protests, Land Rights, and Riots
:
Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s
Contains:
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Map
Introduction
Chapter 1. Crisis of identity: Aboriginal politics, the media and the law
Chapter 2. Neoliberalism and Indigenous rights in New South Wales
Chapter 3. Firm government: state of siege
Chapter 4. Postcolonial fantasy and anxiety in the North West
Chapter 5. Police testimony and the Brewarrina riot trial
Chapter 6. Aborigines behaving badly: legal realism and paternalism
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Description:
The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aboriginal populations lived, were provoked as a consequence of social fragmentation, unparalleled unemployment, and other major economic and political changes. The ensuing riots, protests, and law-and-order campaigns in New South Wales captured the tense relations that existed between indigenous people, the police, and the criminal justice system. In Protests, Land Rights, and Riots, Barry Morris shows how neoliberal policies in Australia targeted those who were least integrated socially and culturally, and who enjoyed fewer legitimate economic opportunities. Amidst intense political debate, struggle, and conflict, new forces were unleashed as a post-settler colonial state grappled with its past. Morris provides a social analysis of the ensuing effects of neoliberal policy and the way indigenous rights were subsequently undermined by this emerging new political orthodoxy in the 1990s.