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| Author | : Noel Loos |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0702251607 |
'He was in the best sense a fighter for equal rights, a rebel, a free-thinker, a restless spirit, a reformer who saw far into the future and far into the past.' Dr Bryan Keon-Cohen, plaintiffs' barrister in the Mabo litigation Here, largely in his own words, is the incredible story of Edward Koiki Mabo, from his childhood on the Island of Mer through to his struggle within the union cause and the black rights movement. Tragically, Mabo died just months before the historic High Court native-title decision that destroyed forever the concept of terra nullius. Originally published by UQP in 1996, this new edition has been updated by Mabo's long-time friend historian Noel Loos. New photographs and a preface by esteemed film director Rachel Perkins give this book the new life it deserves.
| Author | : Geoff Rodoreda |
| Publisher | : Anthem Press |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2021-06-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1785274252 |
More than any other event in Australia’s legal, political and cultural history, the High Court of Australia’s 1992 Mabo decision challenged previous ways of thinking about land, identity, belonging, the nation and history. Now, more than a quarter of a century after Mabo, this book examines the broader impacts of this landmark legal decision on various forms of Australian culture and cultural practice. How is Australia’s post-Mabo imaginary being reflected, refracted and articulated in contemporary film, fiction, poetry, biography and other forms of cultural expression? To what extent has the discussion and practice of history, linguistics, anthropology and other branches of the humanities been challenged or transformed by Mabo? While the judges in Mabo recognised native title, they also denied Indigenous people sovereignty over the continent: how is First Nations sovereignty being articulated and creatively imagined in more recent post-Mabo discourse? This interdisciplinary book, offering a transnational perspective via scholars based in Australia, continental Europe and the UK, provides an overview of the diverse impact and discursive influence of Mabo on fields of artistic endeavour and cultural practice in Australia today.
| Author | : Bryan Keon-Cohen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 746 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
| ISBN | : 9781742983486 |
This acclaimed book is an insider's comprehensive account, written for the non-lawyer, by the plaintiffs' counsel, Dr. Bryan Keon-Cohen AM QC. He recounts Eddie Mabo's motivations, the Murray Islanders and their culture; lawyers and judges involved; legal aid hassles; set-backs during trial; repeated attacks by Bjelke-Petersen's government; Mabo's premature death; final success in the High Court, and the case's legacy. Published in 2011, the first edition is sold out. This revised, re-named version includes text of 600 pp, footnotes, photographs, court and personal documents, a chronology, appendices, bibliography and a detailed new Index. ..". a wonderful story in human terms, it is an important story in legal terms, and most significantly, it is a very important story for the integrity of Australia as a just nation." - The Hon Justice Michael Kirby, AC CMG
| Author | : Pamela Burton |
| Publisher | : Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781742580982 |
This is the remarkable story of Mary Gaudron AC QC, the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia. With wit, astonishing intellect and the tool of the law, Gaudron exposed inequality and discrimination in the workforce and campaigned vigorously for women to be accorded equal pay and equal opportunities.
| Author | : Ma Bo |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 1996-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0140159428 |
A searing first hand account of China's Cultural Revolution that joins the ranks of great memoirs such as Life and Death in Shanghai, Wild Swans and A Chinese Odyssey First banned in its native land, this earthy, unflinching memoir has become one of the biggest bestsellers in the history of China. In 1968, a fervent young Red Guard joined the army of hotheaded adolescents who trekked to Inner Mongolia to spread the Cultural Revolution. After gaining a reputation as a brutal abuser of the local herd owners and nomads, Ma Bo casually criticized a Party Leader. Denounced as an “active counterrevolutionary” and betrayed by his friends, the idealistic youth was brutally beaten and imprisoned. Charged with passion, never doctrinaire, Blood Red Sunset is a startlingly vivid and personal narrative that opens a window on the psyche of totalitarian excess that no other work of history can provide. This is a tale of ideology and disillusionment, a powerful work of political and literary importance. “A deceptively straightforward story carried forward by deep currents of insight.”—The Washington Post “A genuine, no-holds-barred, unadorned piece of writing…echoing the realities of contemporary China.”—Liu Binyan, The New York Times Book Review
| Author | : Patti Miller |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2012-08 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0702248193 |
Exploring the history of the Wiradjuri people, the conflict of colonization, their mythologies, and their attachment to the land, author Patti Miller reveals both her own story and the position of Aboriginal people in today's society in this fascinating memoir. For 40,000 years, the Central New South Wales area of Wellington was Aboriginal Wiradjuri land. Following the arrival of white men, it became a penal settlement, a mission station, a gold-mining town, and a farming center with a history of white comfort and black marginalization. In the late 20th century, it was also the subject of the first post-Mabo native title claim, bringing new hope--and controversy--to the area and its people. Patti, a local of the area, explores Australian identity in relation to her beloved but stolen country. Black and white politics, the processes of colonization, family mythologies, generational conflict, and the power of place are evoked as she weaves a story that is very personal and, at the same time, a universal tale of belonging.
| Author | : Henry Reynolds |
| Publisher | : Penguin Books |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told? is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and idealised version of the past. From the author's unforgettable encounter in a North Queensland jail with injustice towards Aboriginal children, to his friendship with Eddi Mabo, to his shattering of the myths about our 'peaceful' history, this bestselling book will shock, move and intrigue. Why Weren't We Told? is crucial reading on the most important debate in Australia as we enter the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Alex Mitchell |
| Publisher | : UNSW Press |
| Total Pages | : 553 |
| Release | : 2012-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1742241077 |
Many know Alex Mitchell as a political journalist. Few know that he was also a revolutionary. This revealing memoir is a rollicking tale of chain-smoking newspapermen, unionists and revolutionaries, crooked cops and corrupt politicians, spies and dictators; made real by the struggles of ordinary working people.
| Author | : Jim Reynolds |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2020-05-01 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0774864591 |
This book tells the story of a First Nation’s single-minded quest for justice. In 1958, the federal government leased a third of the small Musqueam Reserve in Vancouver to an exclusive golf club at far below market value. When the band members discovered this in 1970, they initiated legal action. Their tenacity led to the 1984 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Guerin v. The Queen. In Guerin, the Court held that the government has a fiduciary duty towards Indigenous peoples – an obligation to act in their best interests. This landmark decision is explored in this book, written by an Aboriginal rights lawyer who served as one of the legal counsel for the Musqueam and argued on their behalf all the way to the highest court. Jim Reynolds provides an in-depth analysis, considering the context, the case and decision, and the major impact that Guerin had on Canadian law, politics, and society. The Guerin case changed the relationship between governments and Indigenous peoples from one of wardship to one based on legal rights. It was a seismic decision with implications that resonate today, not only in Canada but also in other Commonwealth countries.
| Author | : Bryan Keon-Cohen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
| ISBN | : 9781921875212 |
Details Eddie Mabos motivations, the Murray Islanders and their culture; lawyers and judges involved; legal aid hassles; set-backs during trial; repeated attacks by Bjelke-Petersens government; Mabos premature death; final success in the High Court, and the cases legacy.
