Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian CitizenshipThis is the first comprehensive study of the ways in which Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have been excluded from the rights of Australian citizenship over the past 100 years. Drawing extensively upon archival material, the authors look at how the colonies initiated a policy of exclusion that was then replicated by the Commonwealth and State governments following federation. The book includes careful examination of gove rnment policies and practice from the 1880s to the 1990s. It argues that there was never any constitutional reason why Aborigines could not be granted full citizenship. |
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... administrative support . We are grateful to the following individuals and institutions for permission to reproduce copyright material : F. Lancaster Jones ; the editors of the Federal Law Review , the Mitchell Library , State Library of ...
... administrative support . We are grateful to the following individuals and institutions for permission to reproduce copyright material : F. Lancaster Jones ; the editors of the Federal Law Review , the Mitchell Library , State Library of ...
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... administrative practice and judicial determination . Citizenship in Australia is complicated because of the multiplicity of governments involved . Prior to federation , the various colonies had established their own regimes to govern ...
... administrative practice and judicial determination . Citizenship in Australia is complicated because of the multiplicity of governments involved . Prior to federation , the various colonies had established their own regimes to govern ...
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... administrative practices by successive parliaments , governments and bureaucrats and was undone by amending and changing those discriminatory laws and practices , a process that largely occurred in the 1960s . Just as INTRODUCTION 7.
... administrative practices by successive parliaments , governments and bureaucrats and was undone by amending and changing those discriminatory laws and practices , a process that largely occurred in the 1960s . Just as INTRODUCTION 7.
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... administrative effort that went into devising and maintaining these discriminatory regimes is truly astonishing , and the formalised injustice and inhumanity that they embodied is shameful . Researching and documenting these regimes has ...
... administrative effort that went into devising and maintaining these discriminatory regimes is truly astonishing , and the formalised injustice and inhumanity that they embodied is shameful . Researching and documenting these regimes has ...
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Contents
The Citizenship Divide in Colonial Victoria | 11 |
Under the Law Aborigines and Islanders in Colonial Queensland | 31 |
Is the Constitution to Blame? | 58 |
The Commonwealth Defines the Australian Citizen in association with Tom Clarke | 84 |
The States Confine the Aboriginal Noncitizen | 121 |
The Slow Path to Civil Rights | 156 |
Other editions - View all
Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship John Chesterman,Brian Galligan No preview available - 1997 |
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