DiscoverIndigenous PodcastDoes constitutional recognition help or hinder the road to Aboriginal self-determination?
Does constitutional recognition help or hinder the road to Aboriginal self-determination?

Does constitutional recognition help or hinder the road to Aboriginal self-determination?

Update: 2016-08-11
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The hard lesson learnt by the U.S. Civil Rights movement was that incremental, palatable, largely ‘symbolic’ victories can often act like a pressure-relief valve: easing the burden on the conscience of the white majority, but indefinitely delaying real, substantive justice. Is constitutional recognition, without a permanent settlement or ‘Treaty’ with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, one such palatable measure designed to placate of non-Indigenous Australians with the appearance of change?
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Does constitutional recognition help or hinder the road to Aboriginal self-determination?

Does constitutional recognition help or hinder the road to Aboriginal self-determination?

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