The Reforming State, the Concerned Public and Indigenous Political Actors

Australian Journal of Politics and History

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 66-81

  Rowse, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 77953176533     PISSN: 00049522     EISSN: 14678497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2010.01542.x     Document Type: Article

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1. J.D.B. Miller, Australian Government and Politics: An Introductory Survey, 2nd ed. (London, 1959), p. 18.
2. Ted Docker, "The Popular Image: Aborigines and the Newspapers" in M. Reay, ed., Aborigines Now (Sydney, 1964), pp. 8-19.
3. Ibid., p.9.
4. C.D. Rowley, "Aborigines and other Australians", Oceania, Vol. 32, 4 (1962), pp. 247-66, see p. 248.
5. See L.R. Hiatt, Arguments about Aborigines (Melbourne, 1996), pp. 78-99, for the rise of this account and its later revision.
6. Rowley, "Aborigines and other Australians", p. 250.
7. Ibid., p. 253.
8. Ibid., p. 254.
9. Ibid., p. 259.
10. Ibid., p. 266.
11. C.D. Rowley, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society (Canberra, 1970); idem, Outcasts in White Australia (Canberra, 1970) and idem, The Remote Aborigines (Canberra, 1970).
12. W.E.H. Stanner, After the Dreaming: the 1968 Boyer Lectures (Sydney, 1969).
13. Pat Stretton and Christine Finnimore, "Blackfellow Citizens: Aborigines and the Commonwealth Franchise", Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 25 (1993), pp. 521-35
14. Murray Goot, "The Aboriginal Franchise and Its Consequences", Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 52, 4 (December 2006), pp. 517-61.
15. Susan Taffe, Black and White Together (St. Lucia, 2005), see pp. 85-124; Bain Attwood, Rights for Aborigines (St. Leonards, 2003), see pp. 164-80. Both AIATSIS and the National Museum of Australia have websites that provide narrative about and campaign documents from the 1967 referendum, setting it in the longer-term struggle for Indigenous rights.
16. C.D. Rowley, A Matter of Justice (Canberra, 1978), p. 234.
17. Damien Short, Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia (Aldershot, 2008)
18. Andrew Gunstone, Unfinished Business: the Australian Formal Reconciliation Process, 2nd ed. (Kew, Vic., 2009).
19. Short, Reconciliation and Colonial Power, pp. 3, 7.
20. Ibid., pp. 22, 24.
21. Ibid., p. 22.
22. Ibid., p. 63.
23. Ibid., p. 106.
24. Ibid., p. 53.
25. Ibid., p. 10.
26. Ibid., p. 123.
27. For analysis of the pluralisation of the uses of "reconciliation" among parliamentarians and the wider public, see Angela Pratt, Practising Reconciliation: the Politics of Reconciliation in the Australian Parliament, 1991-2000 (Canberra, 2005) and Murray Goot and Tim Rowse, Divided Nation? Indigenous Affairs and the Imagined Public (Melbourne, 2007), pp. 140-60.
28. For a relatively early treatment of this moment see Jack Horner, Vote Ferguson for Aboriginal Freedom: a Biography (Sydney, 1974), pp. 56-80.
29. J. Horner and Marcia Langton, "The Day of Mourning" in Bill Gammage and Peter Spearritt, eds., Australians 1938 (Sydney, 1987), pp.29-35; and see footnotes 30-36 for the more recent scholarship.
30. John Maynard, Fight for Liberty and Freedom: the Origins of Australian Aboriginal Activism (Canberra, 2007), p. 127.
31. In the next few paragraphs I draw on Tim Rowse, "Aboriginal Respectability" in Tim Rowse, ed., Contesting Assimilation (Perth 2005), pp. 49-67.
32. Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus, eds., The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History (Sydney, 1999), pp. 80-1.
33. Russell McGregor, "Protest and Progress: Aboriginal Activism in the 1930s", Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 101, pp. 555-68, see p. 557
34. Geoffrey Stokes, "Citizenship and Aboriginality: Two Conceptions of Identity in Aboriginal Political Thought" in Geoffrey Stokes, ed., The Politics of Identity in Australia (Melbourne, 1997), pp. 158-171, seep.163.
35. Attwood and Markus, The Struggle For Aboriginal Rights, p. 84.
36. Heather Goodall, Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972 (Sydney, 1996), pp. 234-6.
37. Victoria Haskins, One Bright Spot (Basingstoke, 2005), p. 173.
38. M.T. Clark evokes this formative milieu in the early chapters of Pastor Doug (Melbourne, 1965), the first biography of an Indigenous political leader. See also Goodall, From Invasion to Embassy, pp. 98-103; Barry Morris, "From Underemployment to Unemployment: the Changing Role of Aborigines in a Rural Economy", Mankind, Vol. 13, 6 (1983), pp. 499-516
39. Diane Barwick, "Corranderrk and Cumeroogunga: Pioneers and Policy" in T.S. Epstein and D.H. Penny, eds., Opportunity and Response: Case Studies in Economic Development (London, 1972), pp. 11-68.
40. On the relationship between assimilation policy and popular culture see: Anna Haebich, "Imagining assimilation", Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 33, 118 (2002), pp. 61-70
41. eadem, Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970 (Fremantle, 2008); Russell McGregor "One People: Aboriginal Assimilation and the White Australia Ideal", History Australia, Vol. 6, 1 (April 2009), pp. 3.1-3.17.
42. Ann Curthoys, Freedom Ride: a Freedom Rider Remembers (Crows Nest, 2002); the influence of overseas political movements, particularly those in the USA, is a theme of Jennifer Clark, Aborigines and Activism: Race, Aborigines and the Coming of the Sixties to Australia (Nedlands, 2008).
43. D.J. Jones and J. Hill-Burnett, "The Political Context of Ethnogenesis: An Australian Example" in Michael Howard, ed., Aboriginal Power in Australian Society (St. Lucia, 1982), pp. 214-46.
44. Ibid., p. 217.
45. Peter Loveday, "The Politics of Aboriginal Society", Politics, Vol. 18, 1 (1983), pp. 1-6, see p. 4.
46. Sally Weaver, "Australian Aboriginal Policy: Aboriginal Pressure Groups or Government Advisory Bodies?", Oceania, Vol. 54, 2 (December 1983), pp. 85-108, see p. 107.
47. Weaver, "Australian Aboriginal Policy", p. 107.
48. Rowley, "Aboriginals and the Australian Political System", p. 242.
49. Michael Howard, Aboriginal Politics in Southwestern Australia (Nedlands, 1981), p. 141.
50. Ibid., p. 142.
51. Tim Rowse, "The Indigenous Sector" in Diane Austin-Broos and G. Macdonald, eds., Culture, Economy and Governance in Aboriginal Australia, Proceedings of a Workshop of the Academy of Social Sciences (Sydney, 2005), pp. 207-224.
52. W.E.H. Stanner, White Man Got No Dreaming (Canberra, 1979), p. 198.
53. Robert Tonkinson, The Jigalong Mob: Aboriginal Victors of the Desert Crusade (Menlo Park, 1974).
54. Fred Myers, "A Broken Code: Pintupi Political Theory and Temporary [sic] Social Life", Mankind, Vol. 12, 4 (1980) pp. 311-326.
55. Rupert Gerritsen, "Blackfellas and Whitefellas" in Peter Loveday, ed., Service Delivery in Remote Communities (Darwin, 1982) pp. 16-31.
56. Gerritsen's focus on "dominant men" has recently been echoed by Helen Hughes, Lands of Shame: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander "Homelands' in Transition (St. Leonards, 2007) and Marcia Langton "Trapped in the Aboriginal Reality Show", Griffith Review, Vol. 19 (Autumn 2008), pp. 145-162, seep. 152.
57. Murray Goot and Tim Rowse, "The 'Backlash' Hypothesis and the Land Rights Option", Australian Aboriginal Studies, Vol. 1 (1991), pp. 3-12
58. Divided Nation?; "Inclusion, Equality and Difference: Continuities in Public Opinion About Indigenous Australians" in Deborah Gare and David Ritter, eds., Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past Since 1788 (South Melbourne, 2008) pp. 533-41.
59. Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus, The 1967 Referendum: Race, Power and the Australian Constitution (Canberra, 2007), p. 7.
60. Quoted in Scott Bennett, "Federalism and Aboriginal Affairs", Australian Aboriginal Studies, Vol. 1 (1988), pp. 18-27, seep. 18.
61. Ibid., p. 26.
62. Attwood and Markus, The 1967 Referendum, p. 156.