Our greatest challenge
Subtitle: Aboriginal children and human rights
By: Hannah McGlade
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781922059109
Subjects: Child sexual abuse; Aboriginal Australian Children; Children's rights; Crimes against
Description: Hannah McGlades new book bravely addresses the complex and fraught issue of Aboriginal child abuse. She argues that Aboriginal child sexual assault has been formed within the entrenched societal forces of racism, colonisation and patriarchy, yet cast in the Australian public domain as an Aboriginal problem, with controversial government responses critiqued as racist and paternalistic. McGlade highlights that non-Aboriginal society has yet to acknowledge the traumatic impacts of the sexual assault on Aboriginal children which was part and parcel of the European project of civilisation. She provides detailed analysis of the legal systems response.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-275) and index.