Civil Rights: How Indigenous Australians Won Formal Equality

Civil Rights: How Indigenous Australians Won Formal Equality
ISBN-10
0702235148
ISBN-13
9780702235146
Series
Civil Rights
Category
Social Science
Pages
376
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Univ. of Queensland Press
Author
John Chesterman

Description

Australians know very little about how Indigenous Australians came to gain the civil rights that other Australians had long taken for granted. One of the key reasons for this is the entrenched belief that civil rights were handed to Indigenous people and not won by them. In this book John Chesterman draws on government and other archival material from around the country to make a compelling case that Indigenous people, together with non-Indigenous supporters, did effectively agitate for civil rights, and that this activism, in conjunction with international pressure, led to legal reforms. Chesterman argues that these struggles have laid important foundations for future dealings between Indigenous people and Australian governments.

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