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'The Aboriginal Treaty Committee began work early in 1979, on a voluntary basis, to convince the public and politicians of the need for a properly negotiated Treaty with Australian Aborigines. When the Fraser government fell in 1983 and the first Hawke government succeeded it, Labor had made many promises to Aborigines. Many of our supporters believed that these promises would be kept.' (Introduction)
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Afterword
1988
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 1988; (p. 44-45)'The developments described by Judith Wright in the article above have produced a response in public awareness and in the Australian media which have helped bring the issue of Aboriginal dispossession before many who had previously been uninformed or indifferent. There have been some signs that politicians themselves have felt obliged to respond also if only in the equivocal terminology of "compacts" of uncertain significance. ' (Publication abstract)
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Afterword
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 1988; (p. 44-45)'The developments described by Judith Wright in the article above have produced a response in public awareness and in the Australian media which have helped bring the issue of Aboriginal dispossession before many who had previously been uninformed or indifferent. There have been some signs that politicians themselves have felt obliged to respond also if only in the equivocal terminology of "compacts" of uncertain significance. ' (Publication abstract)
