What good condition? : reflections on an Australian Aboriginal treaty 1986-2006 / / edited by Peter Read, Gary Meyers and Bob Reece

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910137452503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Canberra, Australia : , : ANU E Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• ISBN: 1-920942-91-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Collana: Aboriginal History Monographs ; ; 13
• Disciplina: 323.119915
• Soggetti: Aboriginal Australians; Aboriginal Australians - Civil rights; Aboriginal Australians - Land tenure; Law - Constitutional law - Treaty movement; Law - International law; Native title - Agreements; Law - Indigenous
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Peter Read/ What good condition? -- Larissa Behrendt/ Foreword -- Steven Churches/ Put not your faith in princes (or courts) – agreements made from asymmetrical power bases: the story of a promise made to Western Australia’s Aboriginal people -- Ravi de Costa/ National encounters between Indigenous and settler peoples: some Canadian lessons -- Peter Read/ Doubts about the treaty -- William Jonas/ Reflections on the history of Indigenous people’s struggle for human rights in Australia – what role could a treaty play? -- Roderic Pitty/ The political aspects of creating a treaty --Tim Rowse/ From enforceability to feel-good: notes on the prehistory of the recent treaty debate --/ The challenge for Australia: reconciling the treaty -- Eddie Mabo Jnr/ A treaty for whom? -- Michael Dodson/ What is a treaty? -- The Hon David Malcolm AC/ Treaty: advancing reconciliation? -- Garth Nettheim/ International Human Rights: bases for Indigenous rights -- Stephen W Robson/ Consent: common law and native title -- The Hon Justice Michael Barker/ ‘Treaty’: what’s in a name? -- The Hon Justice ; Ralph Simmonds/ Customary Law and treaty -- Lisa Strelein/ Missed meanings: the language of sovereignty in the treaty debate -- Greg McConville/ Regional agreements, higher education and representations of Indigenous Australian reality -- Greg McIntyre/ Native title holding communities as treaty parties -- Richard Ah Mat/ The Cape York view -- The Coolangatta Statement on Indigenous peoples’ Rights in Education --Biographical notes.
• Sommario/riassunto: What Good Condition? collects edited papers, initially delivered at the Treaty Advancing Reconciliation conference, on the proposal for a treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, a proposal which has been discussed and dissected for nearly 30 years.Featuring contributions from prominent Aboriginal community leaders, legal experts and academics, this capacious work provides an overview of the context and legacy of the residue of treaty proposals and negotiations in past decades; a consideration of the implications of treaty in an Indigenous, national and international context; and, finally, some reflections on regional aspirations and achievements