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Martin Mulligan on learning from Indigenous Australians.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe, Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People (Allen & Unwin, 2006)

In several well-publicised speeches during 2005, Senator Amanda Vanstone mounted the argument that Aboriginal people living in their own remote settlements deserve our pity rather than admiration and in one of these speeches she suggested they are living in 'cultural museums'.

This sustained attack on the principles of Aboriginal self-determination was followed in 2006 by intense media interest in the poor physical and social conditions prevailing in many remote Aboriginal communities.

Against this backdrop, a book focusing on...

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