Archive for May 27th, 2015
Assimiliation and the push to close down Aboriginal communities
Posted by John, May 27th, 2015 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Aboriginal community closures, Aborigines, Assimilation
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Paddy Gibson in Solidarity magazine looks at the renewed push to close remote Aboriginal communities and how it began with the NT Intervention from 2007. He argues: It took mass mobilisation and the militant black politics of the late 1960s and 1970s to turn back assimilation and put self-determination and liberation on the agenda. The […]