Truth-telling : history, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

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Label

Truth-telling : history, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

Title remainder

history, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

Statement of responsibility

Henry Reynolds

Title variation

Truth telling

Creator

• trueReynolds, Henry
• trueReynolds, Henry, 1938-

Author

• trueReynolds, Henry, 1938-

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc
• trueAustralia -- History
• trueAustralia -- Race relations
• Australia. -- Amendments
• trueGovernment relations with indigenous peoples
• trueIndigenous Australians
• trueIndigenous Australians -- Social conditions
• trueIndigenous peoples
• Reconciliation (Law) -- Australia
• trueSovereignty
• trueTreaties
• trueIndigenous Australians -- History
• Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights
• Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations

Language

eng

Summary

What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that 'peaceful settlement' was a fiction? Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from legal and historical assumptions in a book that's about the present as much as the past. This book shows exactly why our national war memorial must acknowledge the frontier wars, why we must change the date of our national day, and why treaties are important. Most of all, it makes urgently clear that the Uluru Statement is no rhetorical flourish but carries the weight of history and law and gives us a map for the future

Tone

• trueThought-provoking

Cataloging source

SALS

Dewey number

994

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult