Aboriginal Australia and democracy: Old traditions, new challenges

Behrendt, L

Aboriginal Australia and democracy: Old traditions, new challenges

Behrendt, L

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Citation:: The Secret History of Democracy, 2011, pp. 148 - 161
Issue Date:: 2011-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Behrendt, L https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3027-7273	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	The Secret History of Democracy, 2011, pp. 148 - 161	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780230244214	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17860
dc.description.abstract	© Benjamin Isakhan and Stephen Stockwell 2011 and respective authors 2011. When Europeans arrived in Australia to stay a little over two centuries ago, they did not appreciate the complex and consultative governance and legal structures that existed within the Aboriginal communities that they met. Instead, many Europeans saw a primitive race without developed technology and assumed them to be inferior. This Euro-centric assumption of superiority, eventually bolstered by theories of social Darwinism, would be used to support the doctrine of terra nullius, a legal fiction that saw Australia as though it was without a legitimate system of governance. Seen through Europeans eyes, it is not surprising that many outsiders failed to understand the intricacies of our society, especially its complex system of laws and governance.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	The Secret History of Democracy	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1057/9780230299467_11	en_US
dc.title	Aboriginal Australia and democracy: Old traditions, new challenges	en_US
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Abstract:

© Benjamin Isakhan and Stephen Stockwell 2011 and respective authors 2011. When Europeans arrived in Australia to stay a little over two centuries ago, they did not appreciate the complex and consultative governance and legal structures that existed within the Aboriginal communities that they met. Instead, many Europeans saw a primitive race without developed technology and assumed them to be inferior. This Euro-centric assumption of superiority, eventually bolstered by theories of social Darwinism, would be used to support the doctrine of terra nullius, a legal fiction that saw Australia as though it was without a legitimate system of governance. Seen through Europeans eyes, it is not surprising that many outsiders failed to understand the intricacies of our society, especially its complex system of laws and governance.

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