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Pat O'Shane Pat O'Shane i(A26068 works by) (a.k.a. Patricia June O'Shane)
Born: Established: 1941 Mossman, Mossman - Port Douglas area, Port Douglas - Cooktown area, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal Yalangi ; Aboriginal
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1 Back to the Future : Aboriginal Imprisonment Rates and Other Experiences Pat O'Shane , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Indigenous Australians, Social Justice and Legal Reform 2016;
1 Sin of Omission Pat O'Shane , 1998 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 November 1998; (p. 29)
1 y separately published work icon Aboriginal Political Movements: Some Observations Pat O'Shane , Armidale : University of New England , 1998 18162419 1998 single work essay

'Since early 1996 we have witnessed the bold assertion once again of racism through what has been termed `Hansonism' (after Pauline Hanson, founder of .the Pauline Hanson One Nation Party), who was most prominent in raising in the contemporary context the 'bogeyman' of Black privilege in this country; with all of its ramifications, most especially access to excessive amounts of unwarranted Government funding, the covering up of the extent of such funding, without need of accountability.

'The other side of the picture she has consistently painted of Aboriginal people is that they will not work, that they are criminal, that they cannot and will not control their children, and so on. In fact promoting the old stereotypes of Aborigines as being lesser beings than non-Aboriginal (except those of Asian origin).'

(Source : University of New England)

1 James Moloney's 'Gracey' Pat O'Shane , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 2 no. 2 1994; (p. 14-15)

— Review of Gracey James Moloney , 1994 single work novel
1 Leaping like Witches Pat O'Shane , Ralph Winmar , Alf Bamblett , Ted Wilkes , Tombo Winters , Geraldine Briggs , Isabel Flick , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), 1993 single work oral history
— Appears in: The Wailing : A National Black Oral History 1993; (p. 37-81)
1 Patricia June O'Shane, AM, LLM Pat O'Shane , Roberta Sykes (interviewer), 1993 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Murawina : Australian Women of High Achievement 1993; (p. 69-73)
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