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Dive into the books behind our research, offering a new vision on the most divisive political issues facing Aboriginal Australians today.
View our booksAustralian Apartheid: The Aboriginalisation of a Nation, edited by Gary Johns and David Barton, is a new book asking whether a liberal democracy can survive when citizens are no longer equal before the law.
Race-based policies are dividing Australia. Leading jurists, academics, scientists and former government ministers expose the new orthodoxy taking hold across universities, courts, councils and governments, arguing that Australia is rapidly moving towards a system of separation, not unity, and that the politics of grievance is entrenching division.
Learn more or pre-order the book"The book's distinguished authors are people of courage and insight whose scholarship points the way to better outcomes. There will be those who will denigrate the scholarship and experience reflected in these pages. They will mostly be the same people who have given us the failed politics of grievance."
Hon John Anderson AC FTSE
Get a free excerpt of Gary Johns' The Burden of Culture. This book is a new vision of the most divisive political issue in Australia today.
Aboriginal politics, driven by an educated urban elite, focuses heavily on reconciliation and self-determination, often overlooking the 20 percent minority in remote areas facing despair. The challenge lies in addressing the unique needs of this marginalised group constrained by political dynamics.
Learn more or purchase the full book"Gary Johns is a brave and observant writer on Aboriginals' cultures, politics and contrasting ways of life. Unlike many experts he knows what can't be and what has to be reformed. His Burden of Culture is an impressive book and a gold mine of surprising information: it is already affecting the nation's debate on Indigenous affairs."
Professor Geoffrey Blainey
“Gary Johns has done us an enormous favour by detailing how naïve assumptions of Aboriginal empowerment through re-invented 'traditional' culture has resulted in a huge over-funded apparatus of failed programs, dysfunctional bureaucracies and thousands of organisations that do not serve the 20% of indigenous people living remotely in dire circumstances. For all Australians desirous of a better life for Aboriginal people, this book is essential reading, but with a warning: the cosy cult of virtue signalling with its welcome to country prayer is exposed as not just unhelpful but deeply destructive.”
Rachel Kohn AO
Former presenter 'The Spirit of Things' ABC Radio National
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