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Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship

Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship

by Chesterman, John
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This is the first comprehensive study of the ways in which Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have been excluded from the rights of Australian citizenship over the past 100 years. Drawing extensively on archival material, the authors look at how the colonies initiated a policy of exclusion that was then replicated by the Commonwealth and State governments following federation. The book includes careful examination of government policies and practice from the 1880s to the 1990s. It argues that there was never any constitutional reason why Aborigines could not be granted full citizenship.

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BrandCambridge University Press
Pub dateDec 22, 1997
ISBN-10052159751X
ISBN-139780521597517
Pages288
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions8.96 × 6.03 × 0.76 in
Weight1 lb
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