Defending australia's reputation how indigenous Australians won civil rights part one

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 116, 2001, Pages 20-39

  Chesterman, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 0006602395     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314610108596145     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Some scholars, most notably T.H. Marshall, contrast civil rights (which covers rights such as the right to the equal protection of the law) with political rights (such as the right to vote) and social rights (such as the right to receive social security). See T.H. Marshall, 'Citizenship and Social Class' [1950]
2. T.H. Marshall and Tom Bottomore, Citizenship and Social Class (London: Pluto Press, 1992)
3. For the best example of this argument, see Heather Goodall, Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1996)
4. See also Faith Bandler, Turning the Tide: A Personal History of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1989), 35
5. See Tim Rowse, "The Modesty of the State: Hasluck and the Anthropological Critics of Assimilation', in Paul Hasluck in Australian History: Civic Personality and Public Life, eds Tom Stannage, Kay Saunders and Richard Nile (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1998)
6. Tim Rowse, White Flour, White Power: From Rations to Citizenship in Central Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), chap. 7
7. Tim Rowse, Obliged to be Difficult: Nugget Coombs' Legacy in Indigenous Affairs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 17-18, 30
8. Russell McGregor, 'Wards, Words and Citizens: A.P. Elkin and Paul Hasluck on Assimilation', Oceania 69 (1999): 243-59
9. Quoted in Rowse, Obliged to be Difficult, 17
10. Examples of recent historical writings that promote this view can be found in: Rowse, White Flour, White Power, 3
11. and McGregor, 'Wards, Words and Citizens', 245
12. John Chesterman and Brian Galligan, Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 105-6
13. Charles Duguid, address to the National Missionary Council of Australia entitled 'The Future of the Aborigines of Australia' (paper held in National Library of Australia (hereafter NLA), 16 November 1941), 14
14. Duguid, The Aborigines of Australia: Broadcasts and an Address (Adelaide: n.p., 1946), 23
15. Duguid, 'The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as it Relates to the Aborigines of Australia', 24 November 1952, Council for Aboriginal Rights papers, MSS 12913, box 8/4, State Library of Victoria (hereafter SLV)
16. Peter Sekuless, Jessie Street: A Rewarding but Unrewarded Life (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1978), 168-9
17. Jessie Street, 'Report on Aborigines in Australia', unpublished paper held in NLA, May-June 1957, 1, 11
18. Mary Bennett, 'Human Rights for Australian Aborigines: How Can They Learn without a Teacher?', unpublished manuscript held in NLA, 1957
19. S.G. Middleton, Commissioner of Native Welfare, Western Australia, to the Anti-Slavery Society, London, 9 July 1956, B408/0. 2, NAA, Melbourne. The proposed Anti-Slavery Society complaint to the United Nations did not proceed
20. Press statement from the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement, following inaugural conference in Adelaide, February 1958, MS 2683, box 29, NLA. See also Faith Bandler and Len Fox, eds. The Time Was Ripe: A History of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship (Sydney: Alternative Publishing Co-operative, 1983), 97-100
21. Bandler, Turning the Tide, 8-14
22. Sue Taffe, 'Australian Diplomacy in a Policy Vacuum: Government and Aboriginal Affairs, 1961-62', Aboriginal History 19 (1995): 154-72, especially 169-72
23. Jennifer Clark, '"Something to Hide": Aborigines and the Department of External Affairs, January 1961-January 1962'
24. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 83 (1997): 71-84, especially 80-82
25. Shirley Andrews, 'Social Service Benefits Still Denied to Aborigines', Smoke Signals (March 1961): 44, 55
26. Stan Davey. 'Discrimination in the North West', Smoke Signals (December 1965): 3-4
27. See, for example. Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement, Reports and Resolutions of the Fourth National Aboriginal Conference, March-April 1961, 45; '
28. Zelman Cowen and Rachael Richards, 'Preventive Detention in Australia', Journal of the International Commission of Jurists 3 (1961): 44
29. Peter Read, Charles Perkins: A Biography (Melbourne: Viking, 1990), ix, xiii, 57-9
30. See, Charles Perkins, A Bastard Like Me (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1975), 74-91
31. Garry Woodard and Joan Beaumont, 'Paul Hasluck and the Bureaucracy: The Department of External Affairs', in Stannage, Saunders and Nile, eds, 143