What good condition? : reflections on an Australian Aboriginal treaty 1986-2006 / edited by Peter Read, Gary Meyers and Bob Reece.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Read, Peter, editor.

Meyers, Gary, editor.

Reece, Bob, 1940- editor.

Series:

Aboriginal history monograph series ; 13.

Aboriginal History Monographs ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Treaties.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Civil rights.

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press, [2006].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What Good Condition? collects edited papers, initially delivered at the Treaty Advancing Reconciliation conference, on the proposal for a treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, a proposal which has been discussed and dissected for nearly 30 years.Featuring contributions from prominent Aboriginal community leaders, legal experts and academics, this capacious work provides an overview of the context and legacy of the residue of treaty proposals and negotiations in past decades; a consideration of the implications of treaty in an Indigenous, national and international context; and, finally, some reflections on regional aspirations and achievements

Contents:

Peter Read/ What good condition?

Larissa Behrendt/ Foreword

Steven Churches/ Put not your faith in princes (or courts) – agreements made from asymmetrical power bases: the story of a promise made to Western Australia’s Aboriginal people

Ravi de Costa/ National encounters between Indigenous and settler peoples: some Canadian lessons

Peter Read/ Doubts about the treaty

William Jonas/ Reflections on the history of Indigenous people’s struggle for human rights in Australia – what role could a treaty play?

Roderic Pitty/ The political aspects of creating a treaty

Tim Rowse/ From enforceability to feel-good: notes on the prehistory of the recent treaty debate

/ The challenge for Australia: reconciling the treaty

Eddie Mabo Jnr/ A treaty for whom?

Michael Dodson/ What is a treaty?

The Hon David Malcolm AC/ Treaty: advancing reconciliation?

Garth Nettheim/ International Human Rights: bases for Indigenous rights

Stephen W Robson/ Consent: common law and native title

The Hon Justice Michael Barker/ ‘Treaty’: what’s in a name?

The Hon Justice Ralph Simmonds/ Customary Law and treaty

Lisa Strelein/ Missed meanings: the language of sovereignty in the treaty debate

Greg McConville/ Regional agreements, higher education and representations of Indigenous Australian reality

Greg McIntyre/ Native title holding communities as treaty parties

Richard Ah Mat/ The Cape York view

The Coolangatta Statement on Indigenous peoples’ Rights in Education

Biographical notes.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 25, 2017).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781920942915

1920942912

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459769