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The
Sins Of The Nation And The Ritual Of Apologies
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A
People's Movement: Reconciliation In Queensland
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Reconciliation:
A Journey
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Achieving
Social Justice: Indigenous Rights & Australia's Future
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| Rituals
of apology mark a new stage in our recognition of the importance
of collective responsibility - Danielle Celermajer Book (294
p) |
The
stories of 50 Queenslanders
involved in reconciliation - Charmaine
Foley
&
Ian Watson
Book
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Identifies
those approaches that will lead to true and lasting reconciliation
in Australia - Michael
Gordon
Book
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Behrendt
proposes short and longer-term reforms to facilitate greater
rights protection and the exercise of self-determination -
Larissa Behrendt Book |
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In
the last years of the twentieth century, political leaders
the world over began to apologise for wrongs in their nations'
pasts. Many dismissed these apologies as 'mere words', cynical
attempts to avoid more costly forms of reparation; others
rejected them as inappropriate encroachments into politics
or forms of action that belonged in personal relationships
or religion. To understand apology's extraordinary political
emergence, we have to suspend our automatic interpretations
of what it means for nations to apologise and interrogate
their meaning afresh. Taking the reader on a journey through
apology's religious history and contemporary apologetic
dramas, this book argues that the apologetic phenomenon
marks a new stage in our recognition of the importance of
collective responsibility, the place of ritual in addressing
national wrongs, and the contribution that practices that
once belonged in the religious sphere might make to contemporary
politics.
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From
the foreword by Tiga Bayles: "The purpose of this book
is to provide an opportunity for over fifty Queenslanders
involved in reconciliation to express their views, to tell
their stories, and to articulate their experiences and aspirations.
It is also an opportunity to recognise the contribution
and commitment of just a few of the countless people involved
in the process of reconciliation in this State."
ISBN-13:
9780958529150
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Reconciliation:
A Journey builds on and updates Michael Gordon's award-winning
series of Age articles, capturing the emotion of the Sydney
Olympics and the mass walks for reconciliation, highlighting
the struggle at local levels to regain control, and identifying
those approaches that will lead to true and lasting reconciliation
between black and white Australia. Michael Gordon's personal
account of a watershed year in Australia's slow journey
toward reconciliation was described by judges in the 2000
United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Awards
as "the closest thing to a masterpiece". They
added that Gordon, without underestimating the scale of
the problems or the challenges ahead, "carried a message
of optimism, hope and achievement".
ISBN: 9780868405964
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Larissa
Behrendt attacks the chasm which has grown between indigenous
lives and aspirations in Australia, and the psychological
terra nullius which continues, despite Mabo, to pervade
so much of Australia's mythology and policy. Writing with
great power and clarity, Behrendt proposes various short-term
reforms, as well as longer-term aspirational initiatives
leading to institutional change that will facilitate greater
rights protection and the exercise of self-determination
including: a preamble to the Constitution; a treaty; the
national self-image; economic redistribution; alternative
institutional forms; regional framework agreements; a more
energised politics; and Constitutional protection.
ISBN: 9781862874503
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