Hi,
Yes. I should add a correction - I spoke of the Burke government's
new laws, whereas this article deals with a particularly worrying legal
report intended to justify new laws of dispossession. A bit of a
difference.....
Cheers,
Matthew Davis
tassy wrote:
Graham,
How sporting of you. Your website has several good articles on the
process of Reconciliation I notice. The article from Ian Viner QC
on the Northern Territory's new land laws is particularly interesting to
me. The new Burke government's laws were apparently based on the
ruling in the Gove Pensiula case in the early 1970's which so set-back
the movement for land rights in Australia.
The URL for that article was:
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/July99/Whither_Rights.htm
To me, Denis Burke is part of the movement on the extreme-right of Australian
neo-liberalism/conservatism. He is in fact a very violent man, and
one wonders what agenda he has for Aboriginal Australians in his territory
that differs from the assimilationism that is an all-too familar part of
Australia's undemocratic and racist past.
Henry
Reynolds did notice that race relations in the Northern part of Australia
are considerably more complicated than in the more prosperous south.
The atmosphere, according to his recollection of his Townsville experience
in "Why Weren't We Told", was more violent, and racism more commonplace
in jokes at pubs, etc.. Perhaps that's why we see such regressive
politicians from that part of the world.
It was a very informative
experience, and I thank you very much for it.
Cheers,
Matthew Davis
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