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Contents

Foreword
Albert Bates

Acknowledgments
Map

Introduction

Chapter 1. Crisis of identity: Aboriginal politics, the media and the law

  • The Brewarrina riot: a summary
  • The media riot
  • The trial riot
  • Royal Commission and Indigenising crime

Chapter 2. Neoliberalism and Indigenous rights in New South Wales

  • The new political order
  • Repealing the Aboriginal Land Rights Act
  • A post-bureaucratic public service
  • Self-sufficiency, not dependency
  • The Perkins Report — strategic retreat
  • Removing land rights from the postcolonial landscape

Chapter 3. Firm government: state of siege

  • Law and order in New South Wales
  • Punishing crime
  • Law and order in north-western New South Wales
  • State of siege

Chapter 4. Postcolonial fantasy and anxiety in the North West

  • The North West as contested space
  • Policing cultural borderlands
  • Postcolonial subjects
  • Contingent jurisprudence

Chapter 5. Police testimony and the Brewarrina riot trial
Co-authored with Kerry Zubrinich

  • A prosecution account of the riot
  • What is a riot?
  • Power relations in the courtroom

Chapter 6. Aborigines behaving badly: legal realism and paternalism

  • The evidentiary effect of video
  • Bodies in pain and paternalism
  • Docile bodies and Aborigines behaving badly
  • Legal realism and paternalism

Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Protests, Land Rights, and Riots

Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s

Barry Morris
Foreword by Albert Bates

216 pages, 11 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78238-537-0 Hb Published (December 2014)

eISBN 978-1-78238-538-7 eBook