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Article: Voting Rights and the Image of the Nomad.
- Article from:
- Melbourne Journal of Politics
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Introduction
It is a feature of the literature surrounding Aboriginal identity that Aboriginal agency is most obvious and most easily detected in the period since 1967. For reasons of opportunism and imported practices and influences, the political possibilities since 1967 lend themselves to mobilisation around identity. It is often asserted that before 1967 Aboriginal politics was more concerned with issues of citizenship and the status and rights that citizenship entails. So before 1967, the story proceeds, Aborigines were either careful not to, or did not have the ideological means at their disposal to, challenge the nation-state and its ideological practices ...