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Many Voices: reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation

Many Voices: reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation Book Reviews Many Voices: reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation. Canberra: National Library of Australia 2002. ISBN 0642107548. Mellor, Doreen and Anna Haebich. Reviewed by Tim Rowse, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University Many Voices is an eloquent, compassionate and intelligent product of perhaps the most painful of Australia’s history wars. The editors, Doreen Mellor and Anna Haebich, have earned our gratitude in pulling together a logistically and emotionally challenging research program. Many Voices is also a book of its times. Not only is it readable as a response to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s controversial Bringing Them Home report (1997); it is also the product of a recently emerged formation within Australian society: an empowered Indigenous middle class joined, in this and in other tasks, with progressive non-Indigenous professionals. In combination they have taken on devising, explaining and implementing our latest, post-assimilation strategies for dealing with the legacies of colonisation – strategies known by various terms: self-management, self-determination, etc. To understand the character of this progressive alliance, it is first necessary to realise that in the public debate about the Stolen Generations since 1997, it has been easy to conflate two issues: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Social Issues Wiley

Many Voices: reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation

Rowse, Tim
Australian Journal of Social Issues , Volume 39 (3) – Aug 1, 2004
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Book Reviews Many Voices: reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation. Canberra: National Library of Australia 2002. ISBN 0642107548. Mellor, Doreen and Anna Haebich. Reviewed by Tim Rowse, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University Many Voices is an eloquent, compassionate and intelligent product of perhaps the most painful of Australia’s history wars. The editors, Doreen Mellor and Anna Haebich, have earned our gratitude in pulling together a logistically and emotionally challenging research program. Many Voices is also a book of its times. Not only is it readable as a response to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s controversial Bringing Them Home report (1997); it is also the product of a recently emerged formation within Australian society: an empowered Indigenous middle class joined, in this and in other tasks, with progressive non-Indigenous professionals. In combination they have taken on devising, explaining and implementing our latest, post-assimilation strategies for dealing with the legacies of colonisation – strategies known by various terms: self-management, self-determination, etc. To understand the character of this progressive alliance, it is first necessary to realise that in the public debate about the Stolen Generations since 1997, it has been easy to conflate two issues:

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