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Indigenous health: radical hope or groundhog day?
Author(s) -
Hunter Ernest M
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja14.00557
Subject(s) - indigenous , closing (real estate) , citation , library science , commonwealth , sociology , history , media studies , political science , law , computer science , ecology , biology
Professor Ernest Hunter explains why learning from the past and investing strategically will have the best chance of success\ud\udIn his book Radical hope: education and equality in Australia, Aboriginal lawyer, academic and land rights activist Noel Pearson contends:\ud\ud"Governments and their bureaucracies are informed by everything other than memory of what was done five years ago, ten years ago and eighteen years ago. Politics are remembered, policies are not."\ud\udIt also includes his 2004 Judith Wright Memorial Lecture, in which, reflecting on the political forces necessary to drive national change in Indigenous affairs, he notes:\ud\ud"it will take a prime minister in the mould of Tony Abbott to lead the nation to settle the "unfinished business" between settler Australians and the other people who are members of this nation: the Indigenous people.