Civil Rights: How Indigenous Australians Won Formal Equality

Chesterman, John Civil Rights: How Indigenous Australians Won Formal Equality. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2005.

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Author Chesterman, John
Title Civil Rights: How Indigenous Australians Won Formal Equality
Place of Publication Brisbane
Publisher University of Queensland Press
Publication year 2005-07-1
Series n.s.
Subjects 379902 Aboriginal Studies
360101 Australian Government and Politics
420305 Aboriginal Cultural Studies
390110 Indigenous Law
390109 Civil Law
Abstract/Summary This is chapter 1 of Civil Rights: How Indigenous Australians Won Formal Equality by John Chesterman. 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.
Keyword John Chesterman
Australian Aborigines
Indigenous Australians
civil rights
land rights
Australian history
Aboriginal studies
The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
Australian government
FCAATSI
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