Community Involvement and Education in the 1991-2000 Australian Reconciliation Process

Gunstone, Andrew

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“…But they refute the implication that addressing White ignorance is futile. The difficulties inherent in addressing White ignorance do not detract from the respondents' claims that this is necessary nor from other research that also supports its value (Alcoff , 13 citing Gunstone :43). Further, some theorists argue that, once awareness reaches a certain level, it becomes difficult to turn away from the moral imperative (Pease :184).…”

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Widening the gap: White ignorance, race relations and the consequences for Aboriginal people in Australia

Taylor

Habibis

2020

Aust J Social Issues

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White ignorance has a critical impact on race relations and is implicated in the maintenance of Aboriginal disadvantage. Addressing this ignorance is a largely overlooked capacity‐building opportunity within Australia's non‐Aboriginal population. It warrants consideration as a key component of strategies targeting Aboriginal disadvantage. Despite the established links between race relations and Aboriginal well‐being, Aboriginal perspectives on non‐Aboriginal people rarely feature in public discourse on “Aboriginal problems.” This paper draws on data from 180 in‐depth interviews with 44 Aboriginal people in Darwin on the topic of White Australian people, culture and race relations. It reports Aboriginal perceptions of White Australian ignorance across areas of great symbolic and practical significance to Aboriginal people's lives. Their experience is that most White Australians are ignorant of the history of colonisation and the complexities of its aftermath. They are ignorant of Aboriginal law, cultures and languages, and of the extent of their own ignorance. The call to address White ignorance subverts assumptions about whose ignorance and capacity must be dealt with in order to progress national goals of reconciliation, address Aboriginal disadvantage and achieve justice and equality for Aboriginal people.

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Widening the gap: White ignorance, race relations and the consequences for Aboriginal people in Australia

Taylor

Habibis

2020

Aust J Social Issues

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“…For these reasons, amongst others, many Australians see the process of reconciliation between Australia's First Nations and non-Indigenous peoples as 'unfinished business' (e.g. Gunstone, 2007;Reys, 2012), and progressing reconciliation as necessary for Australia's First Nations peoples 'taking a rightful place in [their] own Country' (Burney, 2018). The Australian First Nations' Uluru Statement from the Heart (Referendum Council, 2017) argued for this as the basis of 'establishing a new relationship between First Nations and the Australian nation based on justice and self-determination where Indigenous cultures and peoples can flourish'.…”

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Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry

Bulkan¹,

Palmer²,

Larson³

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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and cutting-edge assessment of community forestry.Containing contributions from academics, practitioners, and professionals, the Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry presents a truly global overview with case studies drawn from across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The Handbook begins with an overview of the chapters and a discussion of the concept of community forestry and the key issues. Topics as wide-ranging as Indigenous forestry, conservation and ecosystem management, relationships with industrial forestry, trade and supply systems, land tenure and land grabbing, and climate change are addressed. The Handbook also focuses on governance, looking at the range of approaches employed, including multi-level governance and rights-based approaches, and the principal actors involved from local communities and Indigenous Peoples to governments and national and international non-governmental organisations. The Handbook reveals the importance of the historical context to community forestry and the effects of power and politics. Importantly, the Handbook not only focuses on successful examples of community forestry, but also addresses failures in order to highlight the key challenges we are still facing and potential solutions.The Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry is essential reading for academics, professionals, and practitioners interested in forestry, natural resource management, conservation, and sustainable development.

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“…14 In short, a reconciliation process that does not address the Indigenous sovereignty challenge cannot be considered decolonizing. That is not to suggest all aspects of Australian reconciliation are therefore devoid of value; there may be many important symbolic (like the apology) and practical acts that go some way in addressing the injustices of the past for some indigenous people, but if they do not confront the constitutional issue a fundamental aspect of Indigenous/settler relations will remain unaddressed (see Gunstone, 2007, Muldoon, 2009) and inherently colonial. As Muldoon and Schaap (forthcoming) write: ‘while the apology provided a measure of recognition (both of the suffering endured by Indigenous people and of the value of their culture), it was marred by an ongoing failure on the part of the Australian state to properly acknowledge what the history of its relations with Indigenous people disclosed about its identity’.…”

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When sorry isn’t good enough: Official remembrance and reconciliation in Australia

Short

2012

Memory Studies

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When compared with other reconciliation processes, Australian reconciliation and its acts of official remembrance have received relatively little academic attention, and yet the case raises many important questions for settler societies struggling to come to terms with past misdeeds and the burden of the past in the present. This article places Australian reconciliation in the political context of the campaign for a treaty between Indigenous peoples and the settler state that emerged in the 1980s, the institutionalization of common law Indigenous land rights during the 1990s, and the current ‘intervention’ in the Northern Territory. The nature and trajectory of these political events are at odds with two highly lauded official acts of remembrance made under the rubric of reconciliation, Paul Keating’s Redfern Park speech in 1992, and Kevin Rudd’s formal state apology in 2008. The article argues that such settler state acts of official remembrance and acknowledgement of past injustices, while far from devoid of value, are considerably diminished by the positively colonial, and inherently unjust, contemporary political context in which they were made.

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Community Involvement and Education in the 1991-2000 Australian Reconciliation Process

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Widening the gap: White ignorance, race relations and the consequences for Aboriginal people in Australia

Widening the gap: White ignorance, race relations and the consequences for Aboriginal people in Australia

Routledge Handbook of Community Forestry

When sorry isn’t good enough: Official remembrance and reconciliation in Australia

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