CITIZENS WITHOUT RIGHTS by John Chesterman, Brian Galligan ( 9780521597517 )

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Title:

CITIZENS WITHOUT RIGHTS
ABORIGINES AND AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP

By:

John Chesterman, Brian Galligan

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

052159751X

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9780521597517

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 December, 1997

Pages:

288

Description:

This is a comprehensive investigation of the systematic denial of citizenship to indigenous Australians.

Synopsis:

This 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 government policies and practice from the 1880s to the 1990s and argues that Aboriginal people have been central to notions of Australian citizenship by virtue of their exclusion from it. It overturns many assumptions and misunderstandings, arguing that there was never any constitutional reason why Aborigines could not be granted full citizenship. The authors show that citizenship was an empty term used to discriminate systematically against Aboriginal people.

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15 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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