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Author McGlade, Hannah, author

Title Our greatest challenge : Aboriginal children and human rights / Hannah McGlade
Published Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2012
Canberra, ACT : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2012
©2012

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 MELB  364.153 Mcg/Ogc  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 284 pages : 1 photograph ; 23 cm
regular print
Contents Introduction: facing the challenge -- Understanding colonisation and trauma -- Patriarchy, and women and children's oppression -- A decade of government reports and inquiries -- The criminal justice response to child sexual assault -- Close to home: Noongars taking a stand in the courts -- Looking forward: Aboriginal victims at the centre -- Knowing from the heart
Summary Hannah McGlades new book bravely addresses the complex and fraught issue of Aboriginal child abuse. She argues that Aboriginal child sexual assault has been formed within the entrenched societal forces of racism, colonisation and patriarchy, yet cast in the Australian public domain as an Aboriginal problem, with controversial government responses critiqued as racist and paternalistic. McGlade highlights that non-Aboriginal society has yet to acknowledge the traumatic impacts of the sexual assault on Aboriginal children which was part and parcel of the European project of civilisation. She provides detailed analysis of the legal systems response
Analysis Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy
Aboriginal children
Aboriginal culture
Aborigines
All Australian Indigenous Material (Australia)
Australian
Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia)
Cases (Law)
Child abuse
Child care, child and youth welfare (Australia)
Child sexual abuse
Criminal justice
Human rights
Interstate comparisons
Victims of crime
Notes Author is a resident of W.A
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Criminal justice system.
Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity.
Aboriginal Australians.
Child sexual abuse -- Australia.
Child welfare -- Australia.
Children's rights -- Australia.
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Crimes against.
Children, Aboriginal Australian.
Family violence -- Australia.
Sexual abuse victims -- Australia.
Sexually abused children -- Australia.
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Child Abuse, Sexual.
Child Abuse.
SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
LC no. 2012452182
ISBN 9781922059109
Other Titles Our greatest challenge