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Why do Aboriginal communities struggle so hard to be heard in mainstream politics? How do remote and urban communities respond to frequent dramatic shifts in federal and state Aboriginal policies? Since the early 1990s Aboriginal Australia has experienced profound political changes with very real and lasting implications, from the Mabo land rights case in 1992, to the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) in 2005, to more recent attempts to reduce the autonomy of remote communities. Sarah Maddison identifies the tensions that lie at the heart of all Aboriginal politics, arguing that until Australian governments come to grips with this complexity they will continue to make bad policy with disastrous consequences for Aboriginal people. Based on original interviews with influential Aboriginal leaders including Mick Dodson, Tom Calma, Alison Anderson, Jackie Huggins, Warren Mundine and Larissa Behrendt, Black Politics seeks to understand why Aboriginal communities find it so difficult to be heard, get support, and organise internally. It also offers some suggestions for the future, based on the collective wisdom of political players at all levels of Aboriginal politics.

ISBN: 9781741756982
Classification: Indigenous peoples , Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies , Political activism
Format: Paperback (230mm x 153mm x mm)
Pages: 336
Publish Date: 1-Feb-2009
Country of Publication: Australia

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0 star rating by Boomert - Black Politics by Sarah Maddison 13 Jan 2010
As a middle-class Australian, I really welcome this volume because it deals clearly and helpfully with a subject that baffles me and I think it is a great guide for understanding the most complex issue facing Australia today. Sarah Maddison has done an enormous amount of work interviewing 29 different Aboriginal people for their opinions and searching out comments recorded in other parts of the literature. I found the chapter called ‘Individualism and Collectivism’ really interesting, but then the whole content is challenging and confronting. Maddison is realistic, refuses to romanticise, and is sympathetic to the plight of dealing with government bureaucracies and the blindness of most white Australians. The finding of this book is that Aboriginal political culture is immensely complex but that there are no real mysteries to working to a better result. The solution will be found by listening to Aboriginal views and proposals, to give them support and respect and allow the Aboriginal people to become more autonomous so that the government can work to reforming the institutions, demonstrating unfettered goodwill and all Australians can be bettered served. This book should be read as widely as possible.

This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker

Author Biography: Sarah Maddison
Sarah Maddison is Senior Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of NSW. She is coeditor of Silencing Dissent and coauthor of Activist Wisdom.

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