A Decision to Discriminate: Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
A Decision to Discriminate
A Decision to Discriminate: Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
Edited by Michele Harris
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ISBN: 978-0-646-58848-3
A Decision to Discriminate focuses on the Senate Committee Inquiry into the 'Stronger Futures' legislation (a.k.a. the Intervention). It shows how the Government decision-making process chose to ignore the views and ideas expressed by many Aboriginal people of the NorthernTerritory communities in much the same way as has happened since colonisation. The book uses quotes as a way of recording what the people have said and is a valuable resource for students of Aboriginal history and human rights law, particularly those with an interest in the continuing struggles of Aboriginal people.
The book documents:
- How the majority of those providing evidence to theCommittee held similar, adverse views in regard to the Stronger Futures legislation.
- How Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory are being denied the right of taking responsibility for their communities.
- How the Senate Inquiry Committee failed to offer constructive alternatives for Government consideration through recommendations that genuinely reflected the views of the people.
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People on Country − Vital Landscapes − Indigenous Futures
People on Country − Vital Landscapes − Indigenous Futures
Editors Jon Altman and Seán Kerins
2012
288 pages
$39.95
ISBN 9781862878938
http://www.federationpress.com.au
Over the past four decades Aboriginal people living in remote and regional Australia have been empowered by land rights and native title laws to claim back large tracts of their ancestral lands. Today the Indigenous estate covers over 20% of the continent and includes areas of globally significant biodiversity and cultural value, many now declared as Indigenous Protected Areas in the National Reserve System. But none of the Indigenous estate is in its pre-colonial condition and it faces a myriad of environmental threats.
People on Country − Vital Landscapes − Indigenous Futures draws on a diversity of perspectives to document a significant social and environmental movement that is quietly gathering momentum across this vast Indigenous estate. The essays, drawn from a collaboration between university researchers and Indigenous land owners, tells a little-known story about Aboriginal people who are living on, working on and caring for the lands and seas that they own and manage. The book seeks to reposition Indigenous people and their caring for country activities from the margins to the very core of the growing national conversation on issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss and resource depletion.
The book contains chapters on the following topics:
- People on country as alternate development
- Caring for Country to Working on Country
- Conducting two-way ecological research
- Indigenous rangers and the customary economy
- Country as classroom
- North to south?
- Dhimurru wind of change
- Ranger djäma? Manymak!
- A long walk home to the warddewardde
- Countrymen standing together
- Commitment to our country
- No more yardin' us up like cattle
- Reconnecting with culture for future generations
- Indigenous futures on country
- The People on Country project
- Engaging the state