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Start date: 1980 × End date: 1999 × Type: Honours thesis × Subject: Australian Aborigines ×

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    Explorers and Aborigines: a survey of contact between Australian Aborigines and six land explorers, 1828-1862
    Kelly, Lee ( 1980)
    Australian land explorers of the 19th century maintain a place in Australian history as “discoverers”, opening up the land for settlement. In penetrating far beyond the settled districts these explorers were not only the first to see new lands, they were usually the first to meet the Aborigines living there. Often they were asked by the government to include in the journals of their expeditions information about the habits and customs of these people. My research is a study of the journals of six such land explorers; Charles Sturt, Thomas Mitchell, George Grey, Edward John Eyre, Augustus Charles Gregory, and John McDouall Stuart, whose journeys spanned the years 1828 to 1862, from the point of view of their contact with Aborigines. The objective was to analyse their responses to the people they met and the culture they observed. (For complete introduction open document)
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    Pauline, politics and psychoanalysis: theorising racism in Australia
    Wear, Andrew ( 1999)
    This thesis uses a psychoanalytic approach to examine the phenomenon of the rise of the Pauline Hanson and the One Nation political party. Psychoanalysis, as the discipline concerned with developing an understanding of irrationality and the human emotions, is well-placed to tackle issues such as insecurity, resentment and racism. By reviewing the works of a number of psychoanalytic theorists, this thesis suggests ways that they may help us to understand the success of One Nation in Australia. Through this approach, I aim to bring new insights to the study of racism in contemporary Australia. The first part of this thesis consists of a survey of the contentions of six key psychoanalytic theorists. This analysis shows that psychoanalysis affords us an understanding of the subject as a complex being; attached to, and even constituted by, certain images and ideals. In the second section, I suggest ways in which psychoanalytic theory may assist us to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the Pauline Hanson phenomenon. This analysis deals with only a few selected aspects of Hansonism, but to the extent that this can be seen as a synecdoche of the whole, it suggests that the attainment of a full understanding of racism and the human emotions is more complex and difficult task than we often acknowledge.