Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia

by Tess Lea

Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts takes you on an intimate journey into the lives of people armed with the task of ending Australian Aboriginal disadvantage in the frontier north of Australia. Taking a fresh look at longstanding issues, Lea examines the culture of bureaucracy, its need to create the look of action, how intelligent inhabitants uphold the apparatus of government even whilst they critique it, and how benevolent efforts to improve...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1921410183
• ISBN13: 9781921410185
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"