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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 [Review] The Way We Civilise
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'Rosalind Kidd's singularly important history of the administration of Aboriginal Affairs in Queensland seeks to range "beyond the conventional repression/liberation frameworks which have dominated aboriginal studies during the last twenty years". Kidd doesn't want to think of government as an "effect of ideology" where different institutions - church, state, health, media etc. - all run the same repressive racist line. Rather, the picture of government that emerges in this work is a picture of liberal government in the widest sense: government as a site of the formation, administration and problematisation of various objects (in this instance "aboriginal population") as well as government as a kind of brokering agency, an institution that negotiates with and trades off the various competing interest groups who are constituted as "stake-holders" in relation to those objects of governance.' (Introduction) 

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    y separately published work icon Queensland Review vol. 4 no. 2 October 1997 Z1095026 1997 periodical issue 'It is the policy of Queensland Review to dedicate all or part of certain issues to a single topic or event of particular interest and relevance to Queenslanders. This is the second such issue - the first was the special issue guest edited by Lynette Finch on Queensland childhoods. This issue incorporates papers delivered at a recent seminar on the criminal justice system in Queensland. Our guest editor for these papers is Dr Tim Prenzler, the Convenor of that seminar, whose special editorial begins on the next page. The remaining article in this issue, Doug Hunt's excellent overview of the development of the Queensland industrial relations system during the 1990's, has been separately refereed.' (Foreword)  1997 pg. 87-89
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