[csaa-forum] Precarious

[Stephen Muecke]

The President of the CSAA might like to draft a letter of protest to Howard & Rudd and the Minister and Shadow Minister, 
if we can establish that there is sufficient consensus among members, or it could be on behalf of "concerned members of 
the Assn."
Stephen Muecke

> Thanks everyone for this discussion about Howard's plan re 
> Indigenous 
> communities
> 
> I support Kiley's call for attention to more perspectives than 
> those of 
> Noel Pearson - whose views are privileged by Howard and the Murdoch 
> press - this is not to say that his views equate with the 
> government's, 
> nor that they have no merit
> On the question of abuse and violence - Indigenous women's voices 
> are 
> repeatedly raised and not heard - Sonia Smallacombe writes about 
> this in 
> a piece in Hecate 30/1 - she concludes feeling very un-optimistic
> 
> Thanks Kiley for putting feelings as well as analysis into this 
> discussion - I find it hard to get beyond the anger and distress at 
> what 
> Howard is doing here - in the pursuit of long held agendas around 
> land, 
> and remote communities, and federal-state jostling over housing for 
> Aboriginal people, neo-liberal approaches to 'managing Aboriginal 
> affairs' in general - the fundamentalism of invoking 'the child' is 
> a 
> well worn strategy
> Encouraging to hear this morning on ABC RN that at least the polls 
> don't 
> appear to be indicating that those polled are persuaded by his 
> tactic, 
> and his 'black rabbit' hasn't yet delivered election capital - this 
> is 
> cold comfort tho' for people whose lives are ongoingly subjected to 
> government racism - especially when it seems that an ALP government 
> would make little positive difference
> 
> Barbara
> 
> -- 
> Associate Professor Barbara Baird
> Head, Department of Women's Studies
> Flinders University
> GPO Box 2100 Adelaide
> South Australia 5001
> 
> Telephone (+61 8) 8201 2331
> Fax (61 8) 8201 3350
> 
> barbara.baird at flinders.edu.au
> www.ssn.flinders.edu.au/wmst
> 
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