Histories of passion and indifference

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Notes

1. See the Bringing Them Home report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, Australian Human Rights Commission, April 1997. www.hreoc.gov.au/pdf/social_justice/bringing_them_home_report.pdf

2. Richard Weaver, The Ethics of Rhetoric (1953), Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1985, p 212, cited in Michelle T Johnson's doctoral dissertation, ‘Race(ing) Around in Rhetoric and Composition Circles: Racial Literacy as the Way Out’, University of North Carolina, 2009, p 28. http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/listing.aspx?styp=ti&id=1874.

3. See, for example, Aileen Moreton-Robinson (ed) Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2007.

4. The Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership website can be accessed at: www.cyi.org.au/director.aspx. Pearson's publications include: ‘Radical Hope: Education and Equality in Australia’, Quarterly Essay, Collingwood, Vic: Black Inc, 2009; Up from the Mission: Selected Writings, Collingwood, Vic: Black Inc, 2009 (which includes an excerpt from his essay ‘Our Right to Take Responsibility’); ‘White Guilt, Victimhood and the Quest for a Radical Centre’, Griffith Review 16, 2007. http://griffithreview.com/images/stories/edition_articles/ed16_pdfs/pearson_%20ed16.pdf

5. See a history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Gary Foley, ‘Black Power in Redfern 1968–1972’, 2001. www.kooriweb.org/foley/essays/essay_1.html.360-364.

6. Gary Foley, The Australian, 10 February 1972, cited in ‘Black Power in Redfern 1968–1972’, 2001, p 15.

7. See Colin Tatz, ‘The Dark Side of Australian Sport’, 2003. www.playthegame.org/knowledge-bank/articles/the-dark-side-of-australian-sport-1055.html. Also Patrick B Miller ‘The Anatomy of Scientific Racism: Racialist Responses to Black Athletic Achievement’, Journal of Sport History, Spring 1988, pp 119–151. www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1998/JSH2501/jsh2501g.pdf.

8. Ann McGrath (ed), Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines under the British Crown, Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 1995, p xxx.

9. McGregor does quote Indigenous accounts from written sources; however his statement that he has chosen to leave out ‘lived histories’ does frame these questions.

10. Excerpt from Warren Mundine interview by Peters-Little.

11. Sara Ahmed, ‘Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism’, Borderlands e-journal 3(2), cited in Jeni Thornley, ‘Island Home Country’, p 270.