Chancellor of the University discusses the present lack of coordinated national political action - FCAATSI was the only truly national Aboriginal political organisation; Aboriginal camapigns have a local character, even if the issues might be the same; government policies of assimilation, integration and self determination have been policies of dispossession
Analysis
Aborigines
Political participation
Political representation
ATSIC
Federal issue
Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI)
Notes
"Delivered at the University of New England, Armidale, on 14 October 1998."