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    Civil rights: how indigenous Australians won formal equality

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    Author
    CHESTERMAN, J.
    Date
    2005
    Publisher
    University of Queensland Press
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    CHESTERMAN, JOHN
    Affiliation
    Arts: Education Policy and Management
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    Document Type
    Book Chapter
    Citations
    Chesterman, John (2005). Civil rights: how indigenous Australians won formal equality, University of Queensland Press.
    Access Status
    Open Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/33436
    Description

    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.
    Keywords
    aboriginal Australians; legal status; civil rights; political activists; political rights; Australia

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