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The lives of stories: three Aboriginal-settler friendships
The Lives of Stories traces three stories of Aboriginal–settler friendships that intersect with the ways in which Australians remember founding national stories, build narratives for cultural revival, and work on reconciliation and self-determination. These three stories, which are still being told with creativity and commitment by storytellers today, are the story of James Morrill’s adopti…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760462413
- Collation
- 274 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 994.410049915 DOR t
Making Change Happen : Black and White Activists talk to Kevin Cook about Abo…
This book is a unique window into a dynamic time in the politics and history of Australia. The two decades from 1970 to the Bicentennial in 1988 saw the emergence of a new landscape in Australian Indigenous politics. There were struggles, triumphs and defeats around land rights, community control of organisations, national coalitions and the international movement for Indigenous rights. The cha…
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- 11
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- 9781921666742
- Collation
- 448
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.484.COO
Vietnam as if… : Tales of youth, love and destiny
Vietnam as if… follows five young people who have moved from the countryside to the city. Their dramatic everyday lives illuminate some of the most pressing issues in Vietnam today: ‘The Sticky Rice Seller’ explores gender roles; ‘The Ball Boy’ is all about the struggles of sexual and ethnic minorities; ‘The Professional’ examines relations between rich and poor; ‘The Goalkeeper…
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- 13
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- 9781925022315
- Collation
- 202
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 362.709597.HUY
The Contest for Aboriginal Souls : European missionary agendas in Australia
This book covers the missionary activity in Australia conducted by non-English speaking missionaries from Catholic and Protestant mission societies from its beginnings to the end of the mission era. It looks through the eyes of the missionaries and their helpers, as well as incorporating Indigenous perspectives and offering a balanced assessment of missionary endeavour in Australia, attuned to …
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- 15
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760462055
- Collation
- 280
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 266.00899915.GAN
Power, culture, economy: indigenous Australians and mining
Research over the past decade in health, employment, life expectancy, child mortality, and household income has confirmed that Indigenous Australians are still Australia’s most disadvantaged group. Those residing in communities in regional and remote Australia are further disadvantaged because of the limited formal economic opportunities there. In these areas mining developments may be the ma…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921536878
- Collation
- 264 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 305.89915 ALT p
New Directions for Law in Australia : Essays in Contemporary Law Reform
For reasons of effectiveness, efficiency and equity, Australian law reform should be planned carefully. Academics can and should take the lead in this process. This book collects over 50 discrete law reform recommendations, encapsulated in short, digestible essays written by leading Australian scholars. It emerges from a major conference held at The Australian National University in 2016, which…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760461423
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 349.94.LEV
Goodna girls: a history of children in a Queensland Mental Asylum
Goodna Girls tells the story of children incarcerated in Wolston Park Hospital, an adult psychiatric facility in Queensland, Australia. It contains the personal testimonies of women who relate—in their own no-holds-barred style and often with irreverent humour—how they, as children, ended up in Wolston Park and how this affected their adult lives. The accounts of hospital staff who witnesse…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760463915
- Collation
- xvi + 174 p
- Series Title
- Aboriginal History Monographs
- Call Number
- 362.709943 CHY g
Paternalism to partnership : the administration of Indian affairs, 1786-2021
Paternalism to Partnership examines the administration of Indian affairs from 1786, when the first federal administrator was appointed, through 2021. David H. DeJong examines each administrator through a biographical sketch and excerpts of policy statements defining the administrator’s political philosophy, drawn from official reports or the administrator’s own writings. The Indian Offic…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781496230584
- Collation
- xvii, 476 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 323.1197 DEJ p
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