Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders:, the politics of inter-racial coalition in Australia, 1958-1973, Sue Taffe

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The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders:, the politics of inter-racial coalition in Australia, 1958-1973, Sue Taffe
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 454-471)
resource.dissertationNote
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Monash University, 2001.
Main title
The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders:
Nature of contents
theses
Responsibility statement
Sue Taffe
Sub title
the politics of inter-racial coalition in Australia, 1958-1973
Summary
History of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders; narrative of the organisation; analysis of its beginnings; nature of the coalition between Indigenous and non-Indigenous members in working for change; demise of inter-racial cooperation in the 1970s
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- Ch. 1: The birth of a federal pressure group? -- Ch. 2: Making it work -- Ch. 3: Persuading the people and Parliament: the campaign for Constitutional amendment -- Ch. 4: 'Behind the White Man's Road': campaigning to end economic discrimination -- Ch. 5: Recognising rights to land -- Ch. 6: From black/white coalition to black power -- Ch. 7: Collapse of the coalition -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Bibliography