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03328aam a2200397M 4500 001 6C798B289FDF11EA86A3D44697128E48 003 SILO 005 20200527010026 008 190606t20192019vraabc e b 001 0 eng 020 $a 0522875394 020 $a 9780522875393 020 $a 0522875408 020 $a 9780522875409 035 $a (OCoLC)1133242976 040 $a AU@ $b eng $e rda $c AU@ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d YDXIT $d SILO 042 $a anuc 050 4 $a DU124.G68 $b H65 2019 100 1 $a Holland, Alison, $c Dr, $e author. 245 10 $a Breaking the silence : $b Aboriginal defenders and the settler state, 1905-1939 / $c Alison Holland. 264 1 $a Carlton, Victoria : $b Melbourne University Publishing, $c 2019. 300 $a xiv, 362 pages : $b illustrations, maps, portraits ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a Breaking the Silence recovers the conflicted politics of Aboriginal affairs in the first decades of the twentieth century. From 1905, when the report of the controversial Roth Royal Commission in Western Australia was made known to the public, to the eve of World War II, the condition, status and treatment of Aboriginal Australians were leading social questions that generated much discontent and underscored the awakening of a national conscience. Styled the 'new public', defenders lobbied governments to develop policies to ensure viable Aboriginal futures. In charting aspects of this politics, Alison Holland uncovers the defenders' programs for reform and the responses of governments to them. She shows how the consternation of the defenders was disproportionate to political will. Governments didn't listen or hear. They viewed the issues and solutions in different ways. Where defenders saw a humanitarian crisis, governments identified a colour problem in White Australia and developed policies to eradicate it. Breaking the Silence shows that there was no 'great Australian silence' on this question in the first half of the twentieth century. While the history books may have been silent, the politics on the ground, in the press, the auditorium, parliament, university, church and mission were anything but. Holland asks why this was so. What form did this politics take, what was at stake and what were the outcomes? In answering these questions the book provides important historical context for the consternation and debates still being had in the Australian polity over Aboriginal affairs. 650 0 $a Aboriginal Australians $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Aboriginal Australians $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Aboriginal Australians $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Aboriginal Australians $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Aboriginal Australians $x Government policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00794521 650 7 $a Aboriginal Australians $x Government relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00794522 650 7 $a Aboriginal Australians $x Legal status, laws, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00794534 650 7 $a Aboriginal Australians $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00794561 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317040425.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6C798B289FDF11EA86A3D44697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search