The politics of suffering
Subtitle: indigenous Australia and the end of the liberal consensus
By: Peter Sutton.
Publisher: Melbourne University Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Carlton, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780522856361
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions; Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of; Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations; Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy
Description: Have Australian Aboriginal communities become places of increased suffering because of the progressive policies of the 1970s-2000s? Australia's leading anthropologist, Peter Sutton, looks at these decades of optimism and grief and argues that there has not been a better quality of life for Indigenous Australians.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-262) and index.