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On 27 May, 1967 a remarkable event occurred. An overwhelming majority of electors voted in a national referendum to amend clauses of the Australian Constitution concerning Aboriginal people. This title explores the legal and political significance of the referendum and the long struggle by black and white Australians for constitutional change.

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Rediscovers the contributions of indigenous Australians that have always remained unrecorded and unacknowledged, Australia's unwritten histories.

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This is a story of the time when the earth was young and the land was being created. It tells of a powerful and awesome water snake called Wunambi. The Wongutha people of the Eastern Goldfields area of Western Australia say that this huge creature roamed the earth, and that the great tracks it made became the creeks and rivers we know today.

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Explores intimacy, immediacy and mobility as the core principles underpinning contemporary everyday life in a central Australian Aboriginal settlement. This title analyses an everyday shaped through the interplay between a not so distant hunter-gatherer past and the realities of living in a first world nation-state.

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Provides an exploration of modern Australian social anthropology which examines the forces that helped shaped its formation. This title reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology in Australia as an academic discipline.

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Provides a comprehensive investigation into the different ways in which archaeologists use flaked stone artefacts as a basis for reconstructing the distant human past. This book describes the range of flaked stone artefact forms recovered from Australian archaeological sites.

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Aboriginal youth at risk are suffering more from social than from mental disorder. This title presents a study of youth who have, or feel they have, no purpose in life - or who may be seeking freedom in death. It title presents a portrait of life, and of self-destruction, by young Aboriginal men and women.

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William Blandowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led an expedition to the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers from 1856 to 1857. Australia is the first publication in English of his illustrated encyclopaedia of Aboriginal life. Blandowski explores the potential of images to portray the everyday lives of people.

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William Blandowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led an expedition to the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers from 1856 to 1857. Australia is the first publication in English of his illustrated encyclopaedia of Aboriginal life. Blandowski explores the potential of images to portray the everyday lives of people.

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Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon's was not a normal childhood. A life of self-abuse and crime finally saw him imprisoned. But he has turned his life around, and in Back on the Block, he hopes to help other members of the Stolen Generations find a voice and their place, finally putting their pain to rest.

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This beautifully illustrated story, from the Yuin people of Wallaga Lake, in New South Wales, tells the tale of Bangu the Flying Fox, and the lesson she learns about sticking by her friends. With the permission of the elders of Wallaga Lake, their people's story is retold in this form so that children everywhere can share it and learn from it.

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Describes Indigenous affairs policy in Australia, concentrating on the period since the end of ATSIC in 2004. This book provides an overview of the trajectory of the policy, with the author advancing a new consolidated approach to Indigenous policy which moves beyond the debate over self-determination and assimilation.

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Presents the ongoing debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community. This title draws on the past through a critical examination of major historical works and witnesses accounts and finds uncanny parallels between the techniques and language used there to today's national political stage.

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