Voice, Treaty, Truth and the 'possibilities of history'
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2023
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Nettelbeck, A.
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Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 2023; 26(1-2):84-87
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Amanda Nettlebeck
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The long history of government laws and policies relating to First Nations includes the legal regime of ‘protection’ that placed Indigenous people in the position of wards of the state for much of the twentieth century. In the 1830s, however, when Britain’s Colonial Office conceived the first iteration of ‘protection’ as a policy framework to be applied toI ndigenous people in the Australian colonies, it contained the potential of treaty within it. That potential did not come to pass, but the possibilities of history indicate why the Voice to Parliament will be vital in beginning a proper kind of partnership with Indigenous people that has been deferred since colonisation.
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© Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues , 2023. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.