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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 [Review Essay] Conned!
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'For those of us involved in Australian language issues, this book should have been a landmark publication. Its author, Eve Mumewa Fesl, has solid academic credentials: she holds a doctorate in linguistics, has occupied several academic posts, and has a long record as an outspoken language-policy activist. So we come to this book, a product of her doctoral research, with strong expectations. Here, we might think, we will find something exciting and interesting—if not some original research, at least some unique synthesis of already available material, an authentic Koori voice speaking to us through the medium of Western scholarship. Unfortunately, this is not the case; in virtually all respects, this is a disappointing work. There is little here that is new in itself; there is nothing that has been put together in an interesting way. The book is poorly written and only loosely, ramblingly organised. And the standard of scholarship gives no indication of its origins in a doctoral program; in respect of its depth and breadth of research, it operates more at the level of popular journalism.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 1 1994 11962738 1994 periodical issue

    'Readers may notice the higher profile of book reviews in this and the last issue of Australian Aboriginal Studies. They have approximately doubled in comparison with previous issues, reflecting in part the ever-increasing range as well as number of publications relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies. It also reflects the hard work of the book review editors, Dr Tamsin Donaldson and Dr Graeme Ward . To assist readers, the titles reviewed are listed and classified by subject at the beginning of the Book Reviews section. Reinstated is the listing of books received and not yet reviewed. Inevitably, some books are never reviewed, either because a reviewer cannot be found for them, their content is not centrally Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies, or too much time has elapsed since they were published. In the current issue, we have initiated Book Notes in which the contents of books not reviewed are summarised.'  (Editorial introduction)

    1994
    pg. 60-61
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