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Larissa Behrendt

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Australian stereotypes and cultural identity
Welfare payments and school attendance: an analysis of experimental policy in Indigenous education

Making the welfare payments of Indigenous people conditional on measures such as their children's school attendance is becoming an increasingly popular policy measure in Australia

Native title: beyond the backyards and beaches

The recent Federal Court’s decision about the Perth area is not a groundbreaking legal precedent; it is the simple application of existing law to the facts that were presented during the case

Law and order is only part of the solution
No quick fix
The abolition of ATSIC: implications for democracy

Larissa Behrendt looks at the background to the abolition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

Private land ownership: future agenda for Indigenous affairs?

In this paper Larissa Behrendt argues that the ideologies of 'mainstreaming' and 'assimilation' have failed in the past to shift the poorer health, lower levels of education, higher levels of unemployment and poorer standard of housing that Aboriginal communities have experienced

Reconciliation and human rights: the challenge for all Australians

The text of Larissa Behrendt's Rerum Novarum Social Justice Lecture 2004, in which she contrasts the federal government's indigenous policies with a more ambitious vision of reconciliation that resolves the unfinished business between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia

Election 2004: indigenous rights and institutions

John Howard was in opposition when the Australian and Torres Strait Islander Commission was established and during the parliamentary debates when its enabling legislation was introduced was one of its staunchest critics, portraying bodies like ATSIC as divisive and antagonistic to the philosophy that all Australians should be treated the same way

Mabo: Ten years on

In this occasional paper Larissa Behrendt, professor of law and indigenous studies, looks at the legacy of Mabo

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