'Karen Fox begins her fine study of Australia’s honours system with an account of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s controversial decision in March 2014 to return damehoods and knighthoods to the Order of Australia and the even more contentious selection of Prince Philip in January 2015 as one of the new knights. Fox argues that these events revived what she describes as ‘an important and ongoing debate in Australia’s national life’ (2) on how the honours system should express the nation.' (Introduction)
'Nowadays, ‘ethnography’ often arouses moral disgust. A post-colonial imaginary makes analogies of the removal of minerals, the removal of human remains, the removal of children and the removal of Indigenous knowledge.' (Introduction)
'As a Yorta Yorta academic and anthropologist who teaches and researches upon the land of my people, I was honoured to be asked to review this book by Bain Attwood. Uncle William Cooper has inspired many Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people through his work as a human rights activist. Through his activism, Uncle William contributed to the identity of the Yorta Yorta community, serving as an Elder in Melbourne, Shepparton and across the world. The Yorta Yorta community honour his contribution where possible, and his descendants carry on his work today by representing and honouring his work in education and legal institutions.' (Introduction)
