Description
Title: Achieving Social Justice
Author: BEHRENDT LARISSA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 19/05/2003
Imprint: FEDERATION PRESS
Price: $29.95
Publishing status: Active
Cover artwork: Women Within by Bronwyn Bancroft – Courtesy Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative
Shortlisted for the Stanner Award 2004.
Larissa Behrendt attacks the chasm which has grown between Indigenous lives and aspirations in Australia, and the psychological terra nullius which continues, despite Mabo, to pervade so much of Australia’s mythology and policy.
She proposes longer term, aspirational initiatives leading to institutional change that will facilitate greater rights protection and the exercise of self-determination, including:
a preamble to the Constitution
a treaty
the national self-image
economic redistribution
alternative institutional forms
regional framework agreements
a more energised politics
Constitutional protection.
ISBN: 9781862874503
Weight: 262g
Pages: 208