Rights for Aborigines

by Bain Attwood

Book Overview

'We cannot help but wonder why it has taken the white Australians just on 200 years to recognise us as a race of people' Bill Onus, 1967

Aboriginal people were the original landowners in Australia, yet this was easily forgotten by Europeans settling this old continent. Labelled as a primitive and dying race, by the end of the nineteenth century most Aborigines were denied the right to vote, to determine where their families would live and to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1864489839
• ISBN13: 9781864489835
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"