Politics of Suffering, The: Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus

AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL
Have Australian Aboriginal communities become places of increased suffering because of the progressive policies of the 1970s-2000s? Australia’s leading anthropologist, Peter Sutton, looks at these decades of optimism and grief and argues that there has not been a better quality of life for Indigenous Australians.
xii, 268 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. #190822
Aboriginal Australians — Social conditions. | Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of. | Aboriginal Australians — Government relations. | Aboriginal Australians — Government policy. | Government policy. | Crime – Against persons. | Law enforcement – Offences – Assault. | Socioeconomic conditions. | Health – Policy and administration. | Family – Violence. | Race relations – Reconciliation. | Law enforcement – Offences – Murder. | Government policy – Self determination. | Wik people (Qld SD54) | Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55) | Aurukun (Qld NW Cape York SD54-07)