Namatjira and the burden of citizenship*

Wells, Julie; Christie, Michael

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“…Australia's first federal Naturalization Act, enacted in 1903, prohibited the naturalisation of any person who was 'an aboriginal native of Asia, Africa, or the Islands of the Pacific, excepting New Zealand'. 34 This law codified and broadened a policy in place across the Australasian colonies before Australian Federation whereby Chinese settlers were denied the right to naturalise. New South Wales prohibited Chinese naturalisation by law in 1861, repealed this in 1867, and then reinstated it again in 1888, while other colonies perhaps more opaquely made an administrative decision to no longer grant naturalisation to ethnic Chinese from the late 1880s onwards.…”

Section: Belonging and Racementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Technically, he served in the military by playing in the band in a non-combatant capacity (as specified under soon-to-be-passed amendments to the Defence Act). 34 Although Dick McDonald was barred from full participation, the decisionmaking was inconsistent. We know that other Aboriginal men, as well as some Australian-born Chinese men, succeeded in serving in colonial and for an exemption, although the burden of proof still fell on the person claiming the exemption.…”

Section: Exemptions To Military Service and The Defence Act 1903mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…33 Ibid. colonies like New Zealand and Australia, and it was not until the postwar era that evidence has been found of Chinese families regarding leasehold land as a stepping stone to purchasing land outright. 34 This question of aspirations affects intergenerational land ownership in a number of ways. One of the reasons I undertook a study of farming families was because the family model of ownership is currently under threat in New Zealand.…”

Section: Chinese Land Ownership In Otagomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These men, intent on working and making a profit, had no wives or elderly parents or young children resident in New Zealand for whom they needed to provide a comfortable home. In addition, any 34 Ibid. Boileau cites Lam and Lee, Sons of the Soil here, regarding a market gardener in Auckland in the 1970s.…”

Section: Chinese Land Ownership In Otagomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…33 He urged the British to share their 'great heritage of freedom, representative institutions, Parliamentary government and every form of human equality' and, in due time, to admit Indians 'to be full and equal partners in the glory of Empire and service of humanity'. 34 Although not an independent nation, India was an original member of the League of Nations and Sastri was part of its delegation in Geneva in September 1921. He then proceeded as leader of the Indian delegation to the Limitation of Armaments Conference in Washington in November 1921.…”

Section: Who Was V S Srinivasa Sastri Pc?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Subjects and Aliens: Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand

2023

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What a delight to be asked to write the preface to this substantial collection, one that captures the energy and richness of a University of Wollongong 2017 workshop 1 that I so well remember. This resulting book is a tribute to its editors and contributors. Their commitment and perseverance over five years has produced an excellent, evergreen analysis and makes important research accessible to citizenship and membership scholars in Australia, New Zealand and beyond -not to mention the greater community. The collection highlights the prescience of bringing Australian and NewZealand scholars together to focus on citizenship scholarship and its central importance to community and political coherence. As this collection goes to press, the prime minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, has flagged giving New Zealanders a faster pathway to citizenship and even aligning voting entitlements between the two countries. Australians who are permanent residents and who have lived in New Zealand for more than a year can vote in New Zealand elections. 2 The Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters has been asked to consider the rights of New Zealand citizens in Australia -working here, being part of the community, paying taxes and otherwise contributing.3 Tom McIlroy, 'Giving Kiwis Voting Rights in Australia Constitutionally "Risky'", Australian Financial Review, 27 October 2022, www.afr.com/politics/federal/giving-kiwis-voting-rights-in-australia-unsafe-2022 1027-p5btel.xiii PREFACE 'Citizenship', and its equivalent term 'nationality' 4 -so central to political ideals and organisation since the days of the Athenian lawgiver Solon, embossed by the Enlightenment and modern democratic theory, 5 enlarged by T. H. Marshall's broader socioeconomic gloss in the 1950s 6 and further commodified in a globalised world 7 -has, nonetheless, never been more nebulous, contested, ambulatory, fractured and abused than now. While citizenship 'has no definition that is fixed for all time … [i]t has always been at stake in struggles and the object of transformations '. 8

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Section: Belonging and Racementioning

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Section: Exemptions To Military Service and The Defence Act 1903mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Chinese Land Ownership In Otagomentioning

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Section: Chinese Land Ownership In Otagomentioning

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Section: Who Was V S Srinivasa Sastri Pc?mentioning

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To Eliminate Colour Prejudice: The WCTU and Decolonisation in Australia

Holland

2008

Journal of Religious History

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From the mid‐1930s to the mid‐1960s the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in Australia played a key role in the articulation and development of human rights for Aborigines. They provided practical and political support and scaffolding while developing an important ideological base, and they formed alliances across class, gender, race, religious, and political lines to achieve their goal of racial equality. Their activism coincided with the period associated with decolonisation. It has been argued that, in Australia, the end of empire coalesced with the rise of the labour movement in the 1940s. However, this article argues that as a means of understanding WCTU involvement in defending and shaping an Aboriginal rights agenda, the rise of labour is an important but partial explanation. It downplays the role of gender and religion in formulating an ideological position while masking its political implications. Here, I explore the politics of WCTU reform, particularly connections between gender, religion, and race, and trace the Union's defence of Aboriginal human rights in post war Australia.

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Mind the Gap: Micro-mobility, counter networks and everyday resistance in the Northern Territory in 1951

Ellinghaus¹,

Stevens²

2018

Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

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Namatjira and the burden of citizenship*

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Subjects and Aliens: Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand

Subjects and Aliens: Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand

To Eliminate Colour Prejudice: The WCTU and Decolonisation in Australia

Mind the Gap: Micro-mobility, counter networks and everyday resistance in the Northern Territory in 1951

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