Assimiliation and the push to close down Aboriginal communities
Posted by John, May 27th, 2015 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Aboriginal community closures, Aborigines, Assimilation
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 campaign against the NT Intervention played an important role in winning the battle of public opinion and discrediting the Intervention. But it never built up the social power required to actual defeat the policy. The current protests against community closures are the best chance in many years to begin to turn this situation around.
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