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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... no. 2 2005 of Australian Aboriginal Studies est. 1983 Australian Aboriginal Studies
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* Contents derived from the 2005 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
[Review Essay] Balanda : My Year in Arnhem Land, Jennifer Cramer , single work review
— Review of Balanda : My Year in Arnhem Land Mary Ellen Jordan , 2005 single work autobiography ;

'Unanticipated questions of Balanda and Aboriginal relations await Mary Ellen Jordan when she takes a position at the arts centre in Maningrida, a remote community in Arnhem Land. Balanda, the main title of the book, is the local term used for non-Aboriginal people. Jordan’s book is clearly and carefully written, integrating her day-to-day life with reflections that presented through this experience. Balanda is refreshingly honest on the subject of the imbalance of power between black and white in an isolated community. This is a significant subject about which too little is known and is rarely explored. As Jordan found, however, any debate on this contentious area of thought is strongly resisted or it is simply ignored or denied.'  (Introduction)

(p. 76-77)
[Review Essay] Rene Baker File No 28/E.D.P, Jilpia Nappaljari Jones , John E. Thompson , single work review
— Review of Rene Baker File #28/E.D.P. Rene Powell , Bernadette Kennedy , 2005 single work autobiography ;

'...The title refers to the file of the child Rene Baker, held in the Western Australian Department of Native Affairs. This removed child later became Rene Powell, one of the authors of this book. We reviewers were not able to emulate the way the narrative is divided between Rene as the tragic heroine and Bernadette as the Greek chorus, but will attempt a dialogue between one reviewer who was herself removed (Jilpia) and one who grew up once believing such removal was done with ‘good intentions’ (John). It need hardly be said that such intentions pave the road to Hell.'  (Introduction)

(p. 78-79)

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