Civil rights: how indigenous Australians won formal equality
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CHESTERMAN, J.Date
2005Publisher
University of Queensland PressUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
CHESTERMAN, JOHNAffiliation
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Chesterman, John (2005). Civil rights: how indigenous Australians won formal equality, University of Queensland Press.Access Status
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This is a sample chapter from 'Civil rights: how indigenous Australians won formal equality', reproduced with permission from University of Queensland Press.
Abstract
Australians know very little about how Indigenous Australians came to gain the civil rights that other Australians had long taken for granted. One of the key reasons for this is the entrenched belief that civil rights were handed to Indigenous people and not won by them.In this book John Chesterman draws on government and other archival material from around the country to make a compelling case that Indigenous people, together with non-Indigenous supporters, did effectively agitate for civil rights, and that this activism, in conjunction with international pressure, led to legal reforms. Chesterman argues that these struggles have laid important foundations for future dealings between Indigenous people and Australian governments.
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aboriginal Australians; legal status; civil rights; political activists; political rights; AustraliaExport Reference in RIS Format
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