ISBN10: 1862874506, ISBN13: 9781862874503, [publisher: Federation Press, Annandale, NSW] Softcover Paperback. Cover artwork: Women Within by Bronwyn Bancroft - Courtesy Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative \nShortlisted for the Stanner Award 2004. \nLarissa Behrendt attacks the chasm which has grown between Indigenous lives and aspirations in Australia, and the psychological terra nullius which continues, despite Mabo, to pervade so much of Australias mythology and policy. \nShe proposes longer term, aspirational initiatives leading to institutional change that will facilitate greater rights protection and the exercise of self-determination, including: \n\na preamble to the Constitution \na treaty \nthe national self-image \neconomic redistribution \nalternative institutional forms \nregional framework agreements \na more energised politics \nConstitutional protection.\n This new work argues that a broad Indigenous rights framework is crucial to achieving positive change in the socio-economic disadvantage into which Indigenous Australians are born. It explains why addressing problems in Indigenous communities at a practical level needs to be done in conjunction with rights protection. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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