[csaa-forum] Precarious

[Wesley Metham]

 Does the CSAA normally play such a representative role? How would it
establish that there's sufficient consensus?

 Wesley.

Quoting Stephen Muecke <Stephen.Muecke at uts.edu.au>:

>
> 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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