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"This version of Protest, land rights and riots is published in arrangement with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies"--Title page verso.

Previously published: Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2013.

1. Crisis of identity : Aboriginal politics, the media and the law

The Brewarrina riot : a summary

The media riot

The trial riot

Royal Commission and indigenising crime

2. Neoliberalism and indigenous rights in New South Wales

The new political order

Repealing the Aboriginal Land Rights Act

A post-bureaucratic public service

Self-sufficiency, not dependency

The Perkins report : strategic retreat

Removing land rights from the postcolonial landscape

3. Firm government : state of siege

Law and order in New South Wales

Punishing crime

Law and order in north-western New South Wales

State of siege

4. Postcolonial fantasy and anxiety in the north west

The north west as contested space

Policing cultural borderlands

Postcolonial subjects

Contingent jurisprudence

5. Police testimony and the Brewarrina riot trial (co-authored with Kerry Zubrinich)

A prosecution account of the riot

What is a riot?

Power relations in the courtroom

6. Aborigines behaving badly : legal realism and paternalism

The evidentiary effect of video

Bodies in pain and paternalism

Docile bodies and Aborigines behaving badly

Legal realism and paternalism.

Aboriginal Australians > Australia > New South Wales > Government relations > History > 20th century.

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of > Australia > New South Wales > History > 20th century.

Aboriginal Australians > Land tenure > Australia > New South Wales > History > 20th century.

Aboriginal Australians > Civil rights > Australia > New South Wales > History > 20th century.

Protest movements > Australia > New South Wales > History > 20th century.

Riots > Australia > New South Wales > History > 20th century.

Postcolonialism > Australia > New South Wales > History > 20th century.

Neoliberalism > Australia > New South Wales > History > 20th century.

New South Wales > Race relations > History > 20th century.

New South Wales > Politics and government > 20th century.