John Hilary Martin John Hilary Martin i(A123155 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 WEH Stanner : The Dreaming and Other Essays. John Hilary Martin , 2010 single work review essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 2010; (p. 124-125)
1 [Review Essay] Trustees on Trial: Recovering the Stolen Wages. John Hilary Martin , 2007 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2007; (p. 174-175)

'This book has one story to tell, but it is an important story about Aboriginal people in the state of Queensland from 1897 until the 1990s.1The story Kidd documents is that the trustees who had a fiduciary duty to protect and preserve the interests of their Aboriginal changes did not in fact do their duty very satisfactorily, but diverted wage money and other Aboriginal resources to projects of their choosing or in some cases simply pocketed it for themselves. For non-Australians and for some younger Australians it is important to remember that while all Aboriginal persons were regarded in the popular mind as non-citizens and as wards of the state, their status in the six states before Federation in 1901 was more complex. However, they were under severe restraints, of one sort or another, in all six jurisdictions. They lived in a state of ‘coerced dependency’ as Kidd puts it (p.72). In Queensland, Aboriginal persons were required to live where they were assigned, could not travel without permission (even if they did happen to have the money to do so), had to work where they were sent and had no rights to negotiate working conditions. In some cases they were required to work up to 32 hours a week without pay: ‘…year after year more and more men, women and children were contracted involuntarily to locations where there was no protection against labour exploitation, sexual or physical assault’ (p.63).'  (Introduction)

1 [Review Essay] Disciplining the Savages : Savaging the Disciplines. John Hilary Martin , 2007 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2007; (p. 172-174)

'Martin Nakata has chosen a title that is absolutely right for this book, Disciplining the Savages: Savaging the disciplines. In the nineteenth century, the Torres Strait Islanders were thought to be locked in savagery and sin and in desperate need of the civilising disciplines offered by assorted European academics, anthropologists and missionaries. In the present century it is the turn of the European disciplines to be savaged. Nakata, a Torres Strait Islander with a doctorate in Education, casts a critical eye on what assorted academics and missionariesthought that they were accomplishing as they investigated and patronised the islander communities of the Torres Strait.'  (Introduction)

1 y separately published work icon People from the Dawn : Religion, Homeland, and Privacy in Australian Aboriginal Culture W. E. H. Stanner , John Hilary Martin , California : Solas Press , 2001 Z1582774 2001 selected work
1 White Man Got No Dreaming Him Go 'Nother Way - Albert Muta John Hilary Martin , 1994- single work criticism
— Appears in: Pacifica : Journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity , October vol. 7 no. 3 (p. 325-345)
"Land is an essential value for the Australian Aboriginal people, intimately associated with the Dreaming, which is best characterized as a religious value. It was during the Dreaming that the earth was formed and particular land was assignend to particular communities as a permanent responsibility and trust: you were to take care of the land and the land would take care of you. The attitude of immigrant settlers to the land has been different: Australia is a place to be settled, planted and worked. This matches the Christian understanding that religious identity is not located in a physical place, since the Eucharistic assembly is the central locus of Christian identity. But it is also at the breaking of bread that Christians find their attacment to the earth. The article argues that Christians need to learn to live in and with the land they inhabit, since it is the land which provides the ultimate context for the Eucharistic assembly." (Pacifica, Vol. 7, No. 3, October 1994, pp. 325-345)
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