Protests, Land Rights, and Riots: Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s

by Barry Morris

The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aboriginal populations lived, were provoked as a consequence of social fragmentation, unparalleled unemployment, and other major economic and political changes. The ensuing riots, protests, and law-and-order campaigns in New South Wales captured the tense relations that existed between indigenous people, the police,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782385371
• ISBN13: 9781782385370
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"