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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