For undergraduate and postgraduate courses in political science, Aboriginal and Australian studies. The Politics of Fear: From Wik to Woomera focuses on racism and the politics of fear that has become a feature of politics in western nation states. In the Australian context such fears centre on a range of rights and issues such as native title, reconciliation, and the Government response to the stolen generation, along with social policy on multiculturalism, immigration and asylum seekers. This text brings together a range of disparate policy areas in an analysis of racism and fear in contemporary Australia and addresses the broader issues of racism confronting contemporary Australia.

• Introduction: A Culture of Fear
• Discourse on Race
• Native Title and the Politics of Fear
• Reconciliation and the Politics of Race
• Multiculturalism and the Politics of Discontent
• Immigration and the Politics of Division
• Images of Australia in Asia
• From Wik to Woomera

pp. v, 188. Australian Parliamentary Library sticker on back cover.