What do we want? : a political history of Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales / Heidi Norman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norman, Heidi, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.

Aboriginal Australians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT : Aboriginal Studies Press, [2015]

Summary:

Today the network of land councils in New South Wales is the largest Aboriginal representative body in the country with more than a billion dollars in land assets, a near billion-dollar investment fund, and more than 115 local Aboriginal land councils - but it wasn't always so.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction: From Extrinsic to Intrinsic

Chapter 1: Aboriginal Land Rights: From 'Reserves' to 'Country'

Chapter 2: Government, Aborigines and Power: The 1978 Land Rights Inquiry

Chapter 3: The Aboriginal Land Rights Act: Politics and the Art of the Possible

Chapter 4: Working with the Act: Self-determination and Modern Rule

Chapter 5: Justice, Tradition, Progress: Shifting Land Strategies Under the Act

Chapter 6: Defending the Act: Aboriginal Civil Society and the Market

Chapter 7: Aboriginal Governmentality: Technologies of the Self

Chapter 8: What do we want? Land rights!

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

9781922059901

1922059900

9781922059925

1922059927

OCLC:

903204926