Obliged to be Difficult
Subtitle: Nugget Coombs' Legacy in Indigenous Affairs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780521773539
Subjects: Anthropology; Indigenous peoples; Sociology; Government policy; Anthropology - General; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Australian aborigines--Government policy; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Aboriginal Australians; (Herbert Cole),; 1906-; Coombs, H. C; Coombs, H. C.; Politics and government
First sentence: In Charles Rowley's history of Australian governments' policies towards indigenous Australians, the author is at a loss to say when 'assimilation' became the stated objective.