MYTH OF PRIVILEGE, THE: Aboriginal Status, Media Visions, Public Ideas

pp.346 #0918 (Prev ownership on fpd) Soon after Australians voted overwhelmingly for the 1967 referendum on indigenous policy, a new and different public attitude toward indigenous citizens began to surface. Until then, few people entertained the notion that Aborigines were privileged. The idea of Aboriginal privilege really started to gather pace in the early 1980s with manifestations such as Rights for Whites.” Despite decades of public exposure of the disastrous state of indigenous poverty and inequality