Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 [Review Essay] Dreamtime Nightmares: Biographies of Aborigines under the Queensland Aborigines Act
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'It has long been my feeling that biographical "yarning", while telling a good story, and providing valuable new information, tends to provide society, white and black, with a safety valve for its guilt and rage about the past. Hard factual delineation of legislative abuse and the results of acts of "correction" are needed. Biography alone doesn't arouse the reader to a comparison of his lot with that of the biographee. But a different or specialised law, with the details of that law create a keener appreciation of the uses made of that legislation to perpetuate racial injustice.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 1 1986 11956336 1986 periodical issue

    'As we begin to write this editorial it is twenty-five years to the day since people began receiving their invitations to the Conference on Aboriginal Studies.' (Editorial introduction)

    1986
    pg. 85-86
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