Frontiers : discourses of development in Tennant Creek / Mary Edmunds
- Bib ID:
- 624055
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Edmunds, Mary, 1943-
- Description:
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- Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995
- viii, 172 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0855752513 (paperback)
- Series:
- Report series (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)
- Summary:
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Through examining the discourse from local newspapers and other sources, traces the changes in relations between Warrumungu and non-Aboriginal residents of Tennant Creek particularly since the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976; describes the rise of Aboriginal organisations and increased Aboriginal participation in decision-making processes, for example in education and community issues like the Devils Pebbles and proposed toxic waste disposal unit; shows attitudes of mining industry to Aboriginal and conservation concerns.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 167-172.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Tennant Creek Region -- Public opinion
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Tennant Creek Region -- Treatment
- Public opinion -- Northern Territory -- Tennant Creek Region
- Outstations / Homelands movement - Infrastructure - Garbage and refuse disposal
- Media - Print media
- Law - Land - Commonwealth
- Land rights - Claims, disputes, hearings
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Warumungu people (C18) (NT SE53-10)
- Law - Land - State and Territory - Northern Territory
- Land rights - Mining industry
- Tennant Creek (N.T.) -- Race relations
- Tennant Creek (Central NT SE53-14)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1995
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