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Published 01-02-2016
ISBN 9780522868302
Pages 256
Subjects Social and political philosophy Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Indigenous peoples
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Serious Whitefella Stuff

When Solutions Became the Problem in Indigenous Affairs

Mark Moran

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Published 01-02-2016
ISBN 9780522868302
Pages 256
Subjects Social and political philosophy Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Indigenous peoples
Imprint MUP Digital

With individual chapters by Alyson Wright and Paul Memmott.

How does Indigenous policy signed off in Canberra work-or not-when implemented in remote Aboriginal communities? Mark Moran, Alyson Wright and Paul Memmott have extensive on-the-ground experience in this area of ongoing challenge. What, they ask, is the right balance between respecting local traditions and making significant improvement in the areas of alcohol consumption, home ownership and revitalising cultural practices?

Moran, Wright and Memmott have spent years dealing with these pressing issues. Serious Whitefella Stuff tells their side of this complex Australian story.

Mark Moran leads the Development Effectiveness Group at the Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland. His career spans academia, nonprofits, government and consultancy. He has worked in a range of international and indigenous contexts, including Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, China, Bolivia and Lesotho, and remote Indigenous communities in Australia. His writing has…