TY - JOUR
T1 - Place, identity and nationhood
T2 - The Northern Territory intervention as the final act of a dying nation
AU - O'Dowd, Mary
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: month (773h) = Dec 2009; Journal title (773t) = Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. ISSNs: 1030-4312;
PY - 2009/12
Y1 - 2009/12
N2 - The paper argues that the Australian government's intervention in the Northern preemptsthe end of Australia as a single nation state. Through a discussion of national identity, history and particular key (post 1965) policies/Acts and actions by the federal Government the paper considers the place of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in relation to the Australian nation-state and each other. The paper argues there has been a continued social and political marginalisation, displacement and exclusion of Indigenous Australians and continued construction of them as 'others' to'Australianness'. It argues that at so a pivotal point in the history of this country, in the Post Apology society, the Intervention is a watershed institutionalising racism towards indigenous Australians in the new millennium. It suggests place and identity within the 'Australian' nation-state need to be re-framed for the possibility for Indigenous inclusion and/or provide for the sovereignty of the Indigenous nations. Without such action it suggests the Howard/Rudd choirs sing to the ghost of the nation-state as he walks by the billabongs the wells of racism to which non-Indigenous leaders have ever returned.
AB - The paper argues that the Australian government's intervention in the Northern preemptsthe end of Australia as a single nation state. Through a discussion of national identity, history and particular key (post 1965) policies/Acts and actions by the federal Government the paper considers the place of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in relation to the Australian nation-state and each other. The paper argues there has been a continued social and political marginalisation, displacement and exclusion of Indigenous Australians and continued construction of them as 'others' to'Australianness'. It argues that at so a pivotal point in the history of this country, in the Post Apology society, the Intervention is a watershed institutionalising racism towards indigenous Australians in the new millennium. It suggests place and identity within the 'Australian' nation-state need to be re-framed for the possibility for Indigenous inclusion and/or provide for the sovereignty of the Indigenous nations. Without such action it suggests the Howard/Rudd choirs sing to the ghost of the nation-state as he walks by the billabongs the wells of racism to which non-Indigenous leaders have ever returned.
KW - Open access version available
U2 - 10.1080/10304310903294853
DO - 10.1080/10304310903294853
M3 - Article
VL - 23
SP - 803
EP - 825
JO - Continuum
JF - Continuum
SN - 1030-4312
IS - 6
ER -