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Reconciliation and human rights: the challenge for all Australians
No full textThe text of Larissa Behrendt\u27s Rerum Novarum Social Justice Lecture 2004, in which she contrasts the federal government\u27s indigenous policies with a more ambitious vision of reconciliation that resolves the unfinished business between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia
The abolition of ATSIC: implications for democracy
No full textLarissa Behrendt looks at the background to the abolition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. She argues that, in spite of some shortcomings, ATSIC made an important democratic contribution and its demise has left much of the Indigenous community lacking a voice in policy debates
Private land ownership: future agenda for Indigenous affairs?
No full textIn this paper Larissa Behrendt argues that the ideologies of \u27mainstreaming\u27 and \u27assimilation\u27 have failed in the past to shift the poorer health, lower levels of education, higher levels of unemployment and poorer standard of housing that Aboriginal communities have experienced. In addressing key parts of the government\u27s new arrangements - the National Indigenous Committee, shared responsibility agreements, and Indigenous land issues - Professor Behrendt argues that there needs to be a strong alternative vision from the ALP
Larissa Behrendt : achieving social justice : Indigenous rights and Australia's future
No full textThe purpose of this chapter is to examine what was happening around the time
Larissa Behrendt (2003) published Achieving Social Justice: Indigenous Rights
and Australia’s Future. It takes the reader on a journey through the eyes of an Aboriginal scholar, whose research is in Criminology and Indigenous Justice. It is important to learn from the ways of Aboriginal scholars as the knowledge system of Aboriginal people date back to over 60,000 years. This chapter explores the main issues of policy and legislative changes that occurred within Behrendt’s book and what has happened post the release of this publication. The rhetoric around government and Indigenous affairs will be examined with outcomes and purpose, uncovering the difficulties in achieving social justice. Although each policy, Royal Commission, and/or legislative amendments are discussed, the purpose of this chapter is to convey the frustration and hardship faced by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities around Australia, in the struggle for social justice
Why is overcoming Indigenous disadvantage so hard?
No full textIn this presentation, prize-winning novelist, Professor of Law and 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year Larissa Behrendt addresses the lack of progress on Indigenous issues in Australia.
Behrendt argues for a closer examination of the claim that Aboriginal self-determination is a “failed experiment”. She also interrogates the case of the Northern Territory intervention, citing the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act as a turning point in sidelining the importance of human rights in a politicised, polarising and emotional debate.
Behrendt suggests that the idea of mutual obligation has been plagued by misguided incentivising and a less-than-thorough understanding of Indigenous needs.
Offering some key examples of self-improvement, she laments governments\u27 dismissal of the capacity and creativity of disadvantaged communities.
Duration: 37:51 min
Mabo: Ten years on
No full textIn this occasional paper Larissa Behrendt, professor of law and indigenous studies, looks at the legacy of Mabo. There is no doubt that the elation about the overturning of the doctrine of terra nullius was deserved in the sense that the case can be seen as an important legal, symbolic and psychological turning point. In that way, the Mabo case remains a solid reminder that historical wrongs can be righted, that courts can remedy legal fictions and those historically excluded can be brought back into the recognition and protection of the legal system. However, in relation to the substantive benefits delivered by the case, the original excitement of what the case may bring have been sobering and the expectations of what can be delivered by the judgment have evaporated
The Doctrine of Discovery Reconsidered: Reflecting on Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies, by Robert J Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, and Tracey Lindberg, and Reconciling Sovereignties: Aboriginal Nations and Canada, by Felix Hoehn
Full text linkThis is a review essay discussing two books: Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies, by Robert J Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, and Tracey Lindberg, and Reconciling Sovereignties: Aboriginal Nations and Canada, by Felix Hoehn
Legacy
No full text'A stunning first novel. Behrendt creates vivid characters whose convincing inner lives bring this story of loss and survival powerfully to life.' Kate Grenville, author of The Secret River, on Larissa Behrendt's Hom
Whiteness matters : implications of talking up to the white woman\ud
No full textThe author examines the responses to her book "Talkin' up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism." She analyzes the nine out of almost 30 reviews written about her book which talks about power relations between white feminists and indigenous women. Larissa Behrendt, Anne Marshall and Huanani-Kay Trask were among those who reviewed the said book
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