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Still Under the Act? Subjectivity and the State in Aboriginal North Queensland (Essay)

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  • Title: Still Under the Act? Subjectivity and the State in Aboriginal North Queensland (Essay)
  • Author : Oceania
  • Release Date : January 01, 2008
  • Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 240 KB

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Both the colonial encapsulation and post-colonial recognition of North Queensland's Aboriginal population have been achieved through legislative demarcation. Under the auspices of the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 ('the Act'), Queensland's Aboriginal population became state wards, (1) although they were not recognised as Australian citizens for another seventy years (Chesterman and Galligan 1997:31-57; Ganter and Kidd 1993; Kidd 1996). More recently, the Commonwealth's Native Title Act 1993 and Queensland's own Aboriginal Land Act 1991 have provided instruments for the legal recognition of groups of 'traditional owners' understood to hold conjoint interests in land. (2) This paper explores the ongoing effects of legal demarcation on Aboriginal North Queenslanders, drawing on my own ethnographic and applied research in Central Cape York Peninsula. (3) These effects stem, in part, from the manner in which 'the Act' provided for the localization of the state in places like the Central Peninsula. In these places, the state effected huge transformations in Aboriginal lives through the control of local authorities and through the state's support of settler 'bosses'. This control included the creation of an indentured labour force and the state removals that produced the 'stolen generations' (HREOC 1997; Read 1999). The early period of authoritarian control also laid the grounds for the transformation of the 'Aboriginal domain' (von Sturmer 1984)--those aspects of the local that are marked by specifically Aboriginal forms of social action, and which are presumed to exist in disjunction from the state projects and the local settler population. The effects of these transformations continue to shape Aboriginal lives.


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