Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History, A. Dirk Moses, ed. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2004), 325 pp., cloth 63.75, pbk 21.25
As citizens of a white settler democracy, many Australians find it hard to acknowledge that genocide could have happened in their own history. The word genocide erupted into Australian public life in 1997, when a major government report found that particular aspects of the policy of forced Aborigina...
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| Language: | English |
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2007
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 158-161 |
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| Summary: | As citizens of a white settler democracy, many Australians find it hard to acknowledge that genocide could have happened in their own history. The word genocide erupted into Australian public life in 1997, when a major government report found that particular aspects of the policy of forced Aboriginal child removal in the twentieth century conformed to the UN definition of genocide. The report recommended that Aboriginal survivors of the policy should receive compensation and an apology from the federal government.1 The government, however, refused to acknowledge the dark underside of the country's past.2 Since then, conservative media commentators and their adherents have tried to shut down discussion of genocide in Australian history. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcm020 |