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White Agitation For An Aboriginal State In Australia (1925‐1929)
Author(s) -
Blackburn Kevin
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
australian journal of politics and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-8497
pISSN - 0004-9522
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8497.00060
Subject(s) - parliament , ambivalence , white (mutation) , state (computer science) , politics , political science , white paper , law , psychology , social psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , algorithm , computer science , gene
This article evaluates proposals in the late 1920s for the creation of an Aboriginal State in either a part of the Northern Territory or South Australia. In the proposals for an Aboriginal State, Aborigines were to own their own land, live according to their own customs, govern themselves, and have Aboriginal Members of Parliament representing them in the Federal Parliament. The study analyses the intellectual foundations of the proposals in the political organisations of the Maori of New Zealand. It examines Aboriginal people’s ambivalence to the idea, which arose out of their bitter experience of living through previous plans made supposedly for their benefit by white society.