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

What good condition? : reflections on an Australian Aboriginal treaty 1986-2006 / edited by Peter Read, Gary Meyers and Bob Reece.
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ISBN 1920942904 (pbk.) :
Title What good condition? : reflections on an Australian Aboriginal treaty 1986-2006 / edited by Peter Read, Gary Meyers and Bob Reece.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Canberra : ANU E Press, c2006.
Description xi, 239 p. ; 30 cm.
Series Aboriginal history monograph 13
Bibliography Includes bibliographies.
Contents What good condition? / Peter Read -- Foreword / Larissa Behrendt -- 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 / Steven Churches -- National encounters between Indigenous and settler peoples: some Canadian lessons / Ravi de Costa -- Doubts about the treaty / Peter Read -- Reflections on the history of Indigenous people’s struggle for human rights in Australia what role could a treaty play? / William Jonas -- The political aspects of creating a treaty / Roderic Pitty -- From enforceability to feel-good: notes on the prehistory of the recent treaty debate / Tim Rowse -- The challenge for Australia: reconciling the treaty / Sue Stanton -- A treaty for whom? / Eddie Mabo Jnr -- What is a treaty? / Michael Dodson -- Treaty: advancing reconciliation? / The Hon David Malcolm AC -- International Human Rights: bases for Indigenous rights / Garth Nettheim -- Consent: common law and native title / Stephen W Robson -- ‘Treaty’: what’s in a name? / The Hon Justice Michael Barker -- Customary Law and treaty / The Hon Justice Ralph Simmonds -- Missed meanings: the language of sovereignty in the treaty debate / Lisa Strelein -- Regional agreements, higher education and representations of Indigenous Australian reality / Greg McConville -- Native title holding communities as treaty parties / Greg McIntyre -- The Cape York view The Coolangatta Statement on Indigenous peoples’ Rights in Education / Richard Ah Mat.
Summary Papers address the issue of a treaty in Australia; in the first part the papers consider the context and legacy of the resideu of treaty proposals and negotiations in past decades; in the second part they consider the implications of treaty in an Indigenous, national and international context; in the third part papers reflect on regional aspirations and achievements [p.ix]
Subjects Aboriginal Australians -- Treaties
Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Read, Peter, 1945-
Meyers, Gary D.
Reece, Bob, 1940-
Series Aboriginal history monograph 13.
Call number 305.89915 AHM no. 13
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A00570120 305.89915 AHM no. 13
General Collection Monograph 13 . Available to Museum Staff .  
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