Exemption: The Official and Unofficial Impact

Title: Exemption: The Official and Unofficial Impact
Creator: Maynard, John
Relation: Black, White and Exempt: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives under Exemption p. 13-24
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2021
Description: Exemption is a powerful word for a concept and a policy that features in much of the Aboriginal experience since 1788. It is a term that has ruled over our lives in so many instances. Under the official policy of exemption, we were told that we could be exempt from being Aboriginal if we simply assimilated into wider non-Aboriginal society. But there was a Catch 22 within exemption: however hard we might try to meet the criteria of behaviour acceptable to white Australians, white Australians were never going to accept us as equal.
Subject: exemption; Aboriginal experience; white Australians; Indigenous people
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1468317
Identifier: uon:48032
Identifier: ISBN:9781925302332
Language: eng