Keith Windschuttle seeks to undermine a 'mindset among historians of Tasmania that started in... more Keith Windschuttle seeks to undermine a 'mindset among historians of Tasmania that started in Henry Melville's "History of Van Diemen's Land" (1835) and continues in Henry Reynolds's "An Indelible Stain"(2001). Mindsets, or 'interpretive frameworks', sensitise historians to 'evidence' that fits their 'assumptions'. While 'often very productively' applied, Windschuttle concedes, some mindsets have 'overt political objectives'. Recent authors of the orthodox view of Tasmania's colonisation, such as Reynolds and Lyndall Ryan, 'seek to justify "land rights" and the transfer of large tracts of land to the descendants' of Aborigines.Australia Council, La Trobe University, National Library of Australia, Holding Redlich, Arts Victori
The representation of Indigenous Australians as a 'population' scarcely enters into the w... more The representation of Indigenous Australians as a 'population' scarcely enters into the work of Noel Pearson. His is a discourse of people-hood. 'Australia is a country shared by two peoples,' he declared in his 2004 Judith Wright Lecture. He rarely refers to statistical disparity when he writes about the relationship between these two peoples: 'closing the gaps' is not the social justice idea that drives him. Rather, the crucial relationship to get right, he wrote in 2007, is between 'Indigenous governance institutions' and Australia's governments. He asks: 'Is the relationship based on negotiation, and is there mutual accountability in the relationship?' These are questions about the quality of relationships between peoples, not about the size of the socio-economic gaps between populations. In Pearson's thoughts on people-hood, the 'link with ancestral lands and culture' is fundamental, as he made clear in his 2005 Mabo Orati...
In the Weekend Australian (18-19 August 2007), Robert Manne urged 'those who want to grasp th... more In the Weekend Australian (18-19 August 2007), Robert Manne urged 'those who want to grasp the philosophic direction of the [Howard] government's policy' on Indigenous Australians to read Helen Hughes' 'Lands of Shame'. This was good advice. Many of the Howard government's policy innovations (endorsed by the Rudd opposition in August 2007), such as limiting the application of communal land tenure and abolishing many Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP), are consistent with Hughes' ideas.
The unfair manner in which the Australian government and the Australian Mining Industries Council... more The unfair manner in which the Australian government and the Australian Mining Industries Council (AMIC) are handling the Aboriginal land rights issue in terms of mining activities is discussed. It is suggested that the AMIC's and mining companies' propaganda that Aborigines' refusal to permit a mining activity on their land is hostile to all miners' interests, is grossly unfair to the land rights of Aborigines.
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 1987
as they seem to run through the women’s final strivings to maintain self-respect Thus evidently w... more as they seem to run through the women’s final strivings to maintain self-respect Thus evidently with elderly widowed women as with training-film models for elderly retired men; released from forced labour stir-crazy, survival demands their constructing from available materials mock jails as close as possible to the old real ones. Judyth Watson and David Hyndman talk of sickness. Hyndman gives an anthropological account of an orthopaedic ward as observed from patienthood; I suspect that what he says has been said better elsewhere and I found it all rather obvious, but I am an ex-
Intellectual networks linking humanitarians in Britain, Western Australia, and New Zealand in the... more Intellectual networks linking humanitarians in Britain, Western Australia, and New Zealand in the 1850s and 1860s operationalized the concept of native “protection” by arguing contra demographic pessimists that native peoples could survive if their adaptation was thoughtfully managed. While the population-measurement capacities of the colonial governments of Western Australia and New Zealand were still weak, missionaries pioneered the gathering of the data that enabled humanitarians to objectify natives as populations. This paper focuses on Francis Dart Fenton (in New Zealand), Florence Nightingale (in Britain), and Rosendo Salvado (in Western Australia) in the 1850s and 1860s. Their belief in the necessity of population statistics manifests the practical convergence of colonial humanitarianism with public health perspectives and with “the statistical movement” that had become influential in Britain in the 1830s. We draw attention to the materialism and environmentalism of these thr...
Keith Windschuttle seeks to undermine a 'mindset among historians of Tasmania that started in... more Keith Windschuttle seeks to undermine a 'mindset among historians of Tasmania that started in Henry Melville's "History of Van Diemen's Land" (1835) and continues in Henry Reynolds's "An Indelible Stain"(2001). Mindsets, or 'interpretive frameworks', sensitise historians to 'evidence' that fits their 'assumptions'. While 'often very productively' applied, Windschuttle concedes, some mindsets have 'overt political objectives'. Recent authors of the orthodox view of Tasmania's colonisation, such as Reynolds and Lyndall Ryan, 'seek to justify "land rights" and the transfer of large tracts of land to the descendants' of Aborigines.Australia Council, La Trobe University, National Library of Australia, Holding Redlich, Arts Victori
The representation of Indigenous Australians as a 'population' scarcely enters into the w... more The representation of Indigenous Australians as a 'population' scarcely enters into the work of Noel Pearson. His is a discourse of people-hood. 'Australia is a country shared by two peoples,' he declared in his 2004 Judith Wright Lecture. He rarely refers to statistical disparity when he writes about the relationship between these two peoples: 'closing the gaps' is not the social justice idea that drives him. Rather, the crucial relationship to get right, he wrote in 2007, is between 'Indigenous governance institutions' and Australia's governments. He asks: 'Is the relationship based on negotiation, and is there mutual accountability in the relationship?' These are questions about the quality of relationships between peoples, not about the size of the socio-economic gaps between populations. In Pearson's thoughts on people-hood, the 'link with ancestral lands and culture' is fundamental, as he made clear in his 2005 Mabo Orati...
In the Weekend Australian (18-19 August 2007), Robert Manne urged 'those who want to grasp th... more In the Weekend Australian (18-19 August 2007), Robert Manne urged 'those who want to grasp the philosophic direction of the [Howard] government's policy' on Indigenous Australians to read Helen Hughes' 'Lands of Shame'. This was good advice. Many of the Howard government's policy innovations (endorsed by the Rudd opposition in August 2007), such as limiting the application of communal land tenure and abolishing many Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP), are consistent with Hughes' ideas.
The unfair manner in which the Australian government and the Australian Mining Industries Council... more The unfair manner in which the Australian government and the Australian Mining Industries Council (AMIC) are handling the Aboriginal land rights issue in terms of mining activities is discussed. It is suggested that the AMIC's and mining companies' propaganda that Aborigines' refusal to permit a mining activity on their land is hostile to all miners' interests, is grossly unfair to the land rights of Aborigines.
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 1987
as they seem to run through the women’s final strivings to maintain self-respect Thus evidently w... more as they seem to run through the women’s final strivings to maintain self-respect Thus evidently with elderly widowed women as with training-film models for elderly retired men; released from forced labour stir-crazy, survival demands their constructing from available materials mock jails as close as possible to the old real ones. Judyth Watson and David Hyndman talk of sickness. Hyndman gives an anthropological account of an orthopaedic ward as observed from patienthood; I suspect that what he says has been said better elsewhere and I found it all rather obvious, but I am an ex-
Intellectual networks linking humanitarians in Britain, Western Australia, and New Zealand in the... more Intellectual networks linking humanitarians in Britain, Western Australia, and New Zealand in the 1850s and 1860s operationalized the concept of native “protection” by arguing contra demographic pessimists that native peoples could survive if their adaptation was thoughtfully managed. While the population-measurement capacities of the colonial governments of Western Australia and New Zealand were still weak, missionaries pioneered the gathering of the data that enabled humanitarians to objectify natives as populations. This paper focuses on Francis Dart Fenton (in New Zealand), Florence Nightingale (in Britain), and Rosendo Salvado (in Western Australia) in the 1850s and 1860s. Their belief in the necessity of population statistics manifests the practical convergence of colonial humanitarianism with public health perspectives and with “the statistical movement” that had become influential in Britain in the 1830s. We draw attention to the materialism and environmentalism of these thr...
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