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Article: Sovereign Subjects
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- Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review
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- January 1, 2007
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Sovereign Subjects
Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters, Allen & Unwin, 2007.
By Fiona Nicoll
In 1999, the prominent historian of Australian race relations, Henry Reynolds, wrote a semi-autobiographical book titled Why Weren't We Told? This title is somewhat disingenuous and a question that would more adequately reflect the character of Australian race relations past and present might be instead 'What is it that we Know but are Afraid to Tell?' I see the publication of the long-awaited collection, Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters, edited by Aileen Moreton-Robinson, as a book that removes the non-Indigenous defence of not knowing ...