Product Description: On 27 May 1967 a remarkable event occurred. An overwhelming majority of electors voted in a national referendum to amend clauses of the Australian Constitution concerning Aboriginal people. Today it is commonly regarded as a turning point in the history of relations between Indigenous and white Australians...read more

Product Description: Drawing on oral and documentary sources, this study of the Aboriginal struggle for equal standing in Australian society focuses on rapidly changing perceptions of race and history. Prominent Aboriginal leaders are profiled as well as the key historical events that have come to motivate both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal campaigners...read more

Product Description: Based on a forum held at the National Museum of Australia, this examination presents a series of essays by leading contributors to the debate over armed conflict within Australia. The diverse historical and political perspectives presented make a major contribution to the study of cross-cultural relations in Australia's past and provide valuable background for understanding relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians today...read more

Product Description: Recent decades have seen a tremendous upsurge of interest among the indigenous peoples of Australia and New Zealand in their history. Life stories, land claims, genealogy, song, dance and painting have all made new contributions to the recovery and representation of the past...read more

Product Description: A unique record of the voices of Black Australia. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The "Mabo" decision of the High Court of Australia has provoked controversy as well as a sense of crisis in contemporary Australia. The ruling has wider implications than its relatively obvious legal and economic ones. This text considers the profound cultural and political consequences of "Mabo", which are sure to shape Australia's future beyond the end of this century, contributing to the debates about national identity...read more

Product Description: There are not too many histories of Aboriginal reserves that have something good to say of them. But the Burrage children, Winifred, Alan and Elsie, recall the world of their childhood as a happy one. They recount how their Anglo-Australian parents toiled on reserves with genuine caring and an unsentimental sense of duty...read more

Product Description: This study deals with the period after "The Killing Times". It examines the cultural forms of domination, supported by force, which enabled European colonizers to make "Aborigines". But Aborigines were not merely passive victims: out of the exchange came a transformed consciousness for the dispossessed, shaped by European culture and their own...read more