| ISBN |
9780995368309 |
| Author |
Windschuttle, Keith, 1942- (author.) |
| Title |
The break-up of Australia : the real agenda behind Aboriginal recognition / Keith Windschuttle. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Balmain, NSW : Quadrant Books, 2016. |
| ©2016. |
| Description |
470 pages : coloured maps ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Coloured map on end pages. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-451) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: the yes and no cases for Constitutional change -- Prologue: the politics of the Australian Day Riot, 2012 -- Part one: the demands and problems of a black state -- The hidden agenda of Aboriginal sovereignty -- The unfinished business of a black state -- Traditional culture is the problem, not the solution -- The unresolvable issues of Aboriginal identity -- the forty-year experiement that failed -- Part two: the defamation of the Australian Constitution -- Megan Davis and all those dead white male racists -- George Williams and his biggest Constitutional myths -- Robert French on our founding father's racist psyche -- Constitutional illusions that seduce conservatives -- Part three: the ruinous influence of white intellectuals -- Nuggets Coombs and the segregationist agenda -- Henry Reynolds and Australia's entrapped nations -- Bill Stanner and the end of Aboriginal High culture -- Settlement and coming in v. invasion and resistance -- Poor fella our Constitution. |
| Summary |
Australian voters are not being told the truth about the proposal for constitutional recognition of indigenous people. The goal of Aboriginal political activists today is to gain 'sovereignty' and create a black state, equivalent to the existing states. Its territory, comprising all land defined as native title, will soon amount to more than 60 per cent of the whole Australian continent. Constitutional recognition, if passed, would be its 'launching pad'. Recognition will not make our nation complete; it will divide us permanently. |
| Subjects |
National Congress of Australia's First Peoples |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Australia |
| Self-determination, National -- Australia |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Australia |
| Torres Strait Islanders -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Australia |
| Referendum -- Australia |
| Constitutional amendments -- Australia |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations -- History |
| Torres Strait Islanders -- Government relations -- History |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Claims |
| Call number |
2019.015 |
