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Indigenous Aspirations and Structural Reform in Australia

Autor Harry Hobbs
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Can the Australian state be restructured to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and ensure that their distinct voices are heard in the processes of government? This book provides an answer to that question for Australia and provides guidance for all states that claim jurisdiction and authority over the traditional lands of Indigenous peoples. By engaging directly with Indigenous peoples' nuanced and complex aspirations, this book presents a viable model for structural reform. It does so by adopting a distinctive and innovative approach: drawing on Indigenous scholarship globally it presents a coherent and compelling account of Indigenous peoples' political aspirations through the concept of sovereignty. It then articulates those themes into a set of criteria legible to Australia's system of governance. This original perspective produces a culturally informed metric to assess institutional mechanisms and processes designed to empower Indigenous peoples. Reflecting the Uluru Statement from the Heart's call for a First Nations Voice, the book applies the criteria to one specific institutional mechanism - Indigenous representative bodies. It analyses in detail the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and the Swedish Sámi Parliament, a representative body for the Indigenous people of Sweden. In examining the Sámi Parliament the book draws on a rich source of primary and secondary untranslated Swedish-language sources, resulting in the most comprehensive English language exploration of this unique institution. Highlighting the opportunities and challenges of Indigenous representative bodies, the book concludes by presenting a novel and informed model for structural reform in Australia that meets Indigenous aspirations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781509944040
ISBN-10: 1509944044
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Hart Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Presents a distinctive and innovative model for constitutional structural reform for Australia and other states that claim jurisdiction and authority over the traditional lands of Indigenous peoples including Canada, Scandinavia, New Zealand and South-American countries.

Notă biografică

Harry Hobbs is Lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Cuprins

1. Introduction 2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Australian Governance 3. Exploring Indigenous Aspirations 4. Principles of Institutional Design 5. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission 6. The Swedish Sámediggi 7. Structural Reform and Empowerment in Australia: Voice Plus 8. The Limits of Structural Reform

Recenzii

Indigenous Aspirations and Structural Reform in Australia succeeds as an important addition to the literature on reform surrounding Indigenous empowerment . This book is recommended for scholars, legislative policymakers, academics and students with a keen interest in this area of Indigenous law reform.
This book is deserving of a wide readership. It is directly relevant to the debate as to Australian contemporary constitutional reform ... The book is superbly researched and deftly interweaves Indigenous and legal scholarship.
This book is an important, excellent contribution to its subject matter, particularly in relation to its own suggestions for law reform . The text is well structured, measured, and accessible. It treats its subject matter sincerely and respectfully.
In this beautiful and well-written book, Dr Harry Hobbs . tackles an issue that has implications far beyond his stated subject.
This book is a clear, concise, and comprehensive chronicling of options for reforming Australian law and politics related to Indigenous peoples. While this work is theoretically rich I especially appreciated the practical options for positive change which appear in every chapter.
Harry deftly seeks to find solutions to the seemingly intractable tension between Australia's Western-biased constitutional structure and Aboriginal aspirations for self-determination through the inclusion of their voice in Australian governance. It is original, superbly researched and will propel debate forward, which is sorely needed to remedy the illegitimacy of the state-imposed constitutional structure and provide some long-awaited justice for Aboriginal peoples.