ISBN:
9781742236940
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 274 Seiten
,
21 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Reynolds, Henry, 1938 - Truth-telling
DDC:
994
Keywords:
Australia Amendments
;
Aboriginal Australians Civil rights
;
Aboriginal Australians Legal status, laws, etc
;
Aboriginal Australians Government relations
;
Reconciliation (Law)
;
Australia Race relations
;
Australia History
;
Australien
;
Australien Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act
;
Aborigines
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Verfassungsänderung
Abstract:
The Uluru Statement from the Heart -- Introduction : Hearing from the Statement from the Heart -- Part I. The first sovereign nations -- 1. Taking possession -- 2. This ancient sovereignty -- 3. Whose land? -- 4. Effective control? -- 5. Australia and the law of nations -- 6. 'Treaty yeh, treaty now' -- Part II. Searching for truth-telling -- 7. The truth about 26 January -- 8. Settlement, conquest or something else? -- 9. The cost of conquest -- 10. Queensland was different -- 11. Remembering the dead -- 12. The consequences of truth-telling -- 13. Inescapable iconoclasm -- Conclusion: the resurgent north.
Abstract:
What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that 'peaceful settlement' was a fiction? Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from legal and historical assumptions in a book that's about the present as much as the past. This book shows exactly why our national war memorial must acknowledge the frontier wars, why we must change the date of our national day, and why treaties are important. Most of all, it makes urgently clear that the Uluru Statement is no rhetorical flourish but carries the weight of history and law and gives us a map for the future. Back cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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