Citizens without Rights Aborigines and Australian Citizenship Chesterman

Citizens without Rights Aborigines and Australian Citizenship Chesterman

Citizens without RightsAborigines and Australian Citizenship\nAuthor(s): John Chesterman, Brian Galligan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521592307, 978-0521592307\nSynopsis\nThis is the first comprehensive study of the ways in which Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have been excluded from the rights of Australian citizenship over the past 100 years. Drawing extensively upon archival material, the authors look at how the colonies initiated a policy of exclusion that was then replicated by the Commonwealth and State governments following federation. The book includes careful examination of government policies and practice from the 1880s to the 1990s and argues that Aboriginal people have been central to notions of Australian citizenship by virtue of their exclusion from it. It overturns many assumptions and misunderstandings, arguing that there was never any constitutional reason why Abori.

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