Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223).
Contents:
Overture -- I. Bound Willing and True Freedom -- II. Bound Willing in Ezekiel -- III. Being Stuck in the Past in Australia -- Intermezzo The Land and Law -- I. Land in Indigenous Cultures in Australia -- II. An Outline Narrative of Land in Recent Decades -- III. A Narrative About Land in Half a Century of Australian Legislation and Law -- IV. Theological Reflection -- Second Movement Loosing -- I. Forgiveness and Repentance -- II. Reconciliation and Changing the Social and Economic Structures in Corinth -- III. The Risk of the Future in Australia.
Summary:
Why do many First People in Australia find themselves continually under siege? Why do many interventions fail to produce what was hoped for? Why is it that, when there have been many positive developments, at some deep level, nothing seems to have changed? Will the "Uluru Statement from the Heart" ensure the future security of the First Peoples in Australia? -- back cover.
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