The aboriginal tent embassy : sovereignty, black power, land rights and the state
2014
Book
The 1972 Aboriginal Embassy was one of the most significant indigenous political demonstrations of the twentieth century. What began as a simple response to a Prime Ministerial statement on Australia Day 1972, evolved into a six-month political stand-off between radical Aboriginal activists and a conservative Australian government. The dramatic scenes in July 1972 when police forcibly removed the Embassy from the lawns of the Australian Houses of Parliament were transmitted around the world. The demonstration increased international awareness of the struggle for justice by Aboriginal people, brought an end to the national government policy of assimilation and put Aboriginal issues firmly onto the national political agenda.
Main title:
The aboriginal tent embassy : sovereignty, black power, land rights and the state / edited by Gary Foley, Andrew Schaap and Edwina Howell.
Author:
Schaap, Andrew, 1972-, editor of compilationFoley, Gary, 1950-, editor of compilationHowell, Edwina, editor of compilation
Imprint:
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, [2013]Abingdon, Oxon Routledge, [2014]©2014.
Collation:
xxxi, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"A GlassHouse Book."--Cover.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface / Larissa Behrendt -- Introduction / Gary Foley, Andrew Schaap & Edwina Howell -- The aboriginal embassy : an account of the protest of 1972 / Scott Robinson -- A reflection on the first thirty days of the embassy / Gary Foley -- The origins of aboriginal political consciousness and the aboriginal embassy, 1907-1972 / Gordon Briscoe -- Aboriginal protest / Leith Duncan -- Black power - by any means necessary / Edwina Howell -- Tracking back: parallels between the 1920s aboriginal political movements parallels and 1972 tent embassy -- John maynard -- The freedom ride / Ann Curthoys -- The beginnings of the embassy (January 1972) -- Camping indefinitely at the embassy (February-June 1972) -- Confrontation at the embassy (July 1972) -- The continuing presence of the embassy since 1992 -- Anniversary reflections -- The constitutional politics of the aboriginal embassy / Paul Muldoon & Andrew Schaap -- Stating genocide in law / Jennifer Balint -- The spatial politics of aboriginal protest in the parliamentary triangle / Kurt Iveson -- War by other means : the australian war memorial and the aboriginal tent embassy in national space and time / Fiona Nicoll -- What do we want? not native title, that's for bloody sure / Nicole Watson.
ISBN:
9780415538701 (hardback)
Dewey class:
305.89915
LC class:
DU124.L35
Language:
English
Subject:
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenureAboriginal Australians -- Politics and governmentAboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etcAboriginal Australians and mass mediaLand reform -- AustraliaCivil rights -- AustraliaAustralia -- Race relationsAustralia -- Politics and governmentAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection
Index terms:
Aboriginal tent embassy (Canberra)Aboriginal land rightsDemonstrations and protest movementsCivil libertiesLegal standingMedia coverageAboriginal reconciliationAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policyInterviewsHistoryaboriginal tent embassyAustralian
BRN:
234504