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A Different Inequality: The politics of debate about remote Aboriginal Australia by Diane Austin-Broos

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November 2011, no. 336

A Different Inequality: The politics of debate about remote Aboriginal Australia by Diane Austin-Broos

Allen & Unwin, $29.99 pb, 224 pp, 9781742370491

A Different Inequality: The politics of debate about remote Aboriginal Australia by Diane Austin-Broos

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November 2011, no. 336

Many Australians are hungry for answers to Indigenous disadvantage. In recent years, anthropologists have been among those who have proposed solutions. This latest offering is from Diane Austin-Broos, professor emerita at the University of Sydney and long-time ethnographer of the Ntaria (Hermannsburg) community in Central Australia. In it she attempts to outline the debates about Indigenous people both inside and outside the academy over the last two decades. She presents these debates through the prism of anthropology, the discipline that has the longest association with Indigenous Australians, but one that some would suggest has had little influence on Indigenous policy-making in recent years. In fact, Austin-Broos attributes the fierce and sometimes bitter debates in the last decade to the vacuum created by the discipline’s silence in the public sphere, a void readily filled by ‘shock jocks’ and right-wing think tanks eager to criticise the guiding principles of the self-determination era.

Emma Kowal reviews 'A Different Inequality: The politics of debate about remote Aboriginal Australia' by Diane Austin-Broos

A Different Inequality: The politics of debate about remote Aboriginal Australia

by Diane Austin-Broos

Allen & Unwin, $29.99 pb, 224 pp, 9781742370491

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