Aborigines Human Rights And The Law
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Pages: Yellowed
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At the crossroads of justice, sovereignty, and identity, Aborigines Human Rights and the Law presents a landmark examination of the legal standing and civil rights of Australia's First Nations peoples at a critical moment in the nation's history. Edited by leading Australian legal scholar Garth Nettheim, this authoritative collection brings together a range of expert contributors to interrogate the systemic inequalities embedded within Australian law and their devastating impact on Aboriginal communities. The work argues with unflinching clarity that the frameworks governing Indigenous Australians were not merely inadequate — they were instruments of dispossession and exclusion. This collection holds enduring significance as a foundational text in Australian legal and political scholarship, situating Aboriginal rights within the broader international human rights discourse at a time when such arguments were far from mainstream. Nettheim's editorial hand ensures a rigorous yet accessible engagement with issues of land rights, citizenship, and legal personhood, drawing on perspectives from law, policy, and lived experience. Decades on, its central questions — of recognition, redress, and the limits of legal protection — remain searingly relevant, making this volume as urgent today as the moment it was first published.
Author: Garth Nettheim
Format: Paperback
Published: 1974, Australia and New Zealand Book Company
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the crossroads of justice, sovereignty, and identity, Aborigines Human Rights and the Law presents a landmark examination of the legal standing and civil rights of Australia's First Nations peoples at a critical moment in the nation's history. Edited by leading Australian legal scholar Garth Nettheim, this authoritative collection brings together a range of expert contributors to interrogate the systemic inequalities embedded within Australian law and their devastating impact on Aboriginal communities. The work argues with unflinching clarity that the frameworks governing Indigenous Australians were not merely inadequate — they were instruments of dispossession and exclusion. This collection holds enduring significance as a foundational text in Australian legal and political scholarship, situating Aboriginal rights within the broader international human rights discourse at a time when such arguments were far from mainstream. Nettheim's editorial hand ensures a rigorous yet accessible engagement with issues of land rights, citizenship, and legal personhood, drawing on perspectives from law, policy, and lived experience. Decades on, its central questions — of recognition, redress, and the limits of legal protection — remain searingly relevant, making this volume as urgent today as the moment it was first published.