Truth-telling : history, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement / Henry Reynolds.

By: Reynolds, Henry, 1938- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2021Copyright date: copyright2021Description: ix, 274 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781742236940 (paperback)Subject(s): Australia. Constitution -- Amendments | Australia. Constitution Act | Australia. Constitution Act | Australia. Constitution | Australia. Constitution Act -- Amendments | Constitution Act (Australia) | Uluru Statement from the Heart (2017) | Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government | Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure | Aboriginal Australians -- Treaties | Reconciliation -- Australia | Intervention (Federal government) -- Australia | Race relations | Reconciliation (Law) | Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights | Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc | Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations | Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights | Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations | Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc | Reconciliation (Law) -- Australia | Australia -- Politics and government | Australia | Australia -- Race relations | Australia -- HistoryGenre/Form: History. DDC classification: 323.119915 LOC classification: DU124.C48 | R49 2021
Contents:
The Uluru Statement from the Heart -- Hearing the Statement from the Heart -- Introduction: Part I: The first sovereign nations -- 1. Taking possession -- 2. This ancient sovereignty -- 3. Whose land? -- 4. Effective control? -- 5. Australia and the law of nations -- 6. 'Treaty yeh, treaty now' -- Part II: Searching for truth-telling -- 7. The truth about 26 January -- 8. Settlement, conquest or something else? -- 9. The cost of conquest -- 10. Queensland was different -- 11. Remembering the dead -- 12. The consequences of truth telling -- 13. Inescapable iconoclasm -- Conclusion: The resurgent north.
Summary: If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that 'peaceful settlement' was a fiction? If the 1901 parliament did not have control of the whole continent, particularly the North, by what right could the new nation claim it? The historical record shows that the argument of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is stronger than many people imagine and the centuries-long legal position about British claims to the land far less imposing than it appears. In Truth-Telling, influential historian Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from legal and historical assumptions, with his usual sharp eye and rigour, in a book that's about the present as much as the past. His work shows exactly why our national war memorial must acknowledge the frontier wars, why we must change the date of our national day, and why treaties are important. Most of all, it makes urgently clear that the Uluru Statement is no rhetorical flourish but carries the weight of history and law and gives us a map for the future.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Uluru Statement from the Heart -- Hearing the Statement from the Heart -- Introduction: Part I: The first sovereign nations -- 1. Taking possession -- 2. This ancient sovereignty -- 3. Whose land? -- 4. Effective control? -- 5. Australia and the law of nations -- 6. 'Treaty yeh, treaty now' -- Part II: Searching for truth-telling -- 7. The truth about 26 January -- 8. Settlement, conquest or something else? -- 9. The cost of conquest -- 10. Queensland was different -- 11. Remembering the dead -- 12. The consequences of truth telling -- 13. Inescapable iconoclasm -- Conclusion: The resurgent north.

If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that 'peaceful settlement' was a fiction? If the 1901 parliament did not have control of the whole continent, particularly the North, by what right could the new nation claim it? The historical record shows that the argument of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is stronger than many people imagine and the centuries-long legal position about British claims to the land far less imposing than it appears. In Truth-Telling, influential historian Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from legal and historical assumptions, with his usual sharp eye and rigour, in a book that's about the present as much as the past. His work shows exactly why our national war memorial must acknowledge the frontier wars, why we must change the date of our national day, and why treaties are important. Most of all, it makes urgently clear that the Uluru Statement is no rhetorical flourish but carries the weight of history and law and gives us a map for the future.

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