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The politics of suffering

indigenous Australia and the end of the liberal consensus

by Peter Sutton

Government policyGovernment relationsAboriginal Australians, Treatment of.Social conditionsAboriginal AustraliansTreatment of Aboriginal Australians

Have Australian Aboriginal communities become places of increased suffering because of the progressive policies of the 1970s-2000s? Australia's leading anthropologist, Peter Sutton, looks at these decades of optimism and grief and argues that there has not been a better quality of life for Indigenous Australians.

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