ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANA –

The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries, can a rightful place be found for Australia’s original peoples?

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First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

• Government policy – Self determination
• Politics and Government – Political action – Constitutional recognition
• Politics and Government – Political action – Civil rights
• Law – Constitutional law – Treaty movement

f and how indigenous Australians will be recognised in the constitution. In this essential book, several leading indigenous writers and thinkers provide a road map to recognition. These eloquent essays show what constitutional recognition means, and what it could make possible- a fairer relationship and a renewed appreciation of an ancient culture. With remarkable clarity and power, they traverse law, history and culture to map the path to change. The contributors to A Rightful Place are Noel Pearson, Stan Grant, Rachel Perkins, Damien Freeman, Rod Little and Jackie Huggins, and the book includes a foreword by Galarrwuy Yunupingu. A Rightful Place is edited by Shireen Morris, a lawyer and constitutional reform fellow at the Cape York Institute and researcher at Monash University.

• Aboriginal Australians — Legal status, laws, etc
• Torres Strait Islanders — Legal status, laws, etc
• Law reform — Australia
• Civil rights — Australia
• Equality before the law — Australia
• Australia — Politics and government
• Australian
• Pearson, Noel, 1965-
• Grant, Stan, 1963-
• Yunupingu, Galarrwuy, 1948-
• Dodson, Pat, 1947-
• Little, Rod
• Huggins, Jackie, 1956-
• Davis, Megan, 1975-
• Hunter, Nolan
• Mundine, Warren