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Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship - Softcover

Chesterman, John

 
9780521597517: Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive investigation of the systematic denial of citizenship to indigenous Australians.

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Review

'This is an impressively detailed exposition of the legislative and administrative regimes that excluded indigenous Australians form ellective citizenship ... Chesterman and Galligan (not forgetting Tom Clarke) set out to disclose how Aborigines were rendered citizens without rights; they succeed admirably.' Russell McGregor, Australian Historical Studies

Book Description

This is the first comprehensive study of the ways in which Australia's indigenous population has been denied the rights of citizenship over the past 100 years. The book examines govvernment policies and practice and argues that there was never any constitutional reason why Aborigines could not be granted full citizenship.

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