"This version of Protest, land rights and riots is published in arrangement with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies"--Title page verso. Previously published: Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2013. Includes bibliographical references(pages 191-200) and index.
Contents:
1. Crisis of identity : Aboriginal politics, the media and the law -- The Brewarrina riot : a summary -- The media riot -- The trial riot -- Royal Commission and indigenising crime -- 2. Neoliberalism and indigenous rights in New South Wales -- The new political order -- Repealing the Aboriginal Land Rights Act -- A post-bureaucratic public service -- Self-sufficiency, not dependency -- The Perkins report : strategic retreat -- Removing land rights from the postcolonial landscape -- 3. Firm government : state of siege -- Law and order in New South Wales -- Punishing crime -- Law and order in north-western New South Wales -- State of siege -- 4. Postcolonial fantasy and anxiety in the north west -- The north west as contested space -- Policing cultural borderlands -- Postcolonial subjects -- Contingent jurisprudence -- 5. Police testimony and the Brewarrina riot trial (co-authored with Kerry Zubrinich) -- A prosecution account of the riot -- What is a riot? -- Power relations in the courtroom -- 6. Aborigines behaving badly : legal realism and paternalism -- The evidentiary effect of video -- Bodies in pain and paternalism -- Docile bodies and Aborigines behaving badly -- Legal realism and paternalism.
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