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Indigenous Knowledge in Australia: Imagining a Different Society
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Indigenous Knowledge in Australia: Imagining a Different Society

David Davies and James Nyland
Curriculum Challenges for Universities: Agenda For Change, pp.121-141
Springer, 1st
03/2022

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Abstract

Aboriginal people have been described as traumatised, dispossessed and corrupted by racism and contemporary welfare state dependency and this cannot just be ascribed to the history of colonial development (Pearson, 2009). There is a worldwide issue of the economic and cultural rights of indigenous people being extinguished. A clash of material and cultural interests, where one set seems intent on driving the other to extinction, seems unavoidable.

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