aboriginal policy

How best to ensure the future of Australia's social mix perplexes both blacks and whites.An Australian Dilemma argues that preserving tribal social and economic arrangements under modern conditions is worse than futile, often resulting in the opposite of what was intended.

Aborigines, Cattle-Stations, and Culture set out the ideas ofThe Culture Cult thirty years ago: it claims that educational integration into mainstream Australian culture gives Aborigines their best chance of a good life.

Complicating the Australian situation is widespread rural nostalgia shared by both blacks and whites.Pastoral Romance and Indigenous Realities points to the more general romanticism in which yesterday's Aboriginal stockmen are inevitably caught up.

The New Stone Age(also found at this site underThe Culture Cult) takes an uncompromising view of the present crisis, arguing for full-on assimilation before things get worse.

"Aborigines, Cattle Stations, and Culture: A commentary on policies and goals",Mankind, June 1973

"An Australian Dilemma: Reconciling the Irreconcilable", inUpholding the Australian Constitution, The Samuel Griffith Society, 1997

"Pastoral Romance and Indigenous Realities", Quadrant, July 2004

"The New Stone Age", from Chapter One ofThe Culture Cult.