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Synopsis
If governments of Australia agreed to share power with Aboriginal people, what would the result be? And if Australia was to have a settlement or a treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, what would a treaty deal with and how would a treaty affect the general public? Is there anything beyond a treaty?
Treaty and Statehood: Aboriginal Self-determination, by Aboriginal author Michael Mansell, answers these questions and more. Mansell examines the New Zealand model of designated MÄ ori seats and applies the idea to comprise 12 Indigenous Senators in Australia. He argues designated seats and a treaty are constitutionally permissible, and details the possible content for a treaty. He discusses the meaning of self-determination and its limitations, and also thoroughly reviews Aboriginal sovereignty and its function in a modern Australia.
The book critically examines the legality of designated seats, treaty, sharing of power and autonomous communities. The legal examination is broken down into easy-to-understand language. Ultimately, Mansell looks at whether justice can best be served to Aboriginal people through a new State of Australia.
This new idea of a seventh State – or First State for the First peoples, as the author prefers – is constitutionally legal. Its practicality is also critically examined, including the rights each Aboriginal community or ‘nation’ would have under statehood.
This is a book that answers our query about what reconciliation ultimately means and how it can be achieved.
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About the Author
Michael Mansell is an Aboriginal lawyer and activist who has dedicated his life to social, political and legal reform to improve the lives and social standing of Aborigines.
He petitioned the Queen for land rights in 1976. Seen as the head of the Tasmanian Aboriginal movement since the 1970s, Mansell led the land rights movement and gained a high profile by publicly confronting the myth of the extinction of his people. Confronting bigoted attitudes, he used his fair skin and blue eyes to assert the survival of Aboriginal identity. He campaigned for museums in Tasmania to surrender their collections of the Aboriginal dead and in 1983 the Tasmanian Parliament legislated Aboriginal community wishes. He campaigned throughout Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States in 1985 for repatriation of all Aboriginal human remains.
He enrolled in law at the University of Tasmania in 1978. During this period, he played senior football with North Hobart in the TFL and led Tasmanian Aboriginal football squads at the national carnivals.
He was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1984. He ran a legal practice in Hobart from 1986 until 1996, working exclusively for Aboriginals. Mansell was named Tasmanian 'Aboriginal of the Year' in 1987.
He was Legal Director of Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre until 2013.
In 1993, the national gathering of Aboriginals at Eva Valley in the Northern Territory chose Mansell as one of the delegates to negotiate the Native Title Act with Prime Minister Keating. He was instrumental in obtaining land rights in Tasmania from 1995 to 2003, recognition of cultural fishing and hunting rights in 1995, and compensation for the stolen generations in 2006.
In 2016, he was a consultant to Aboriginal Affairs Victoria in developing a State treaty.
He leaves it all behind each year to traditionally harvest mutton birds.
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"His strongly expressed opinions are always sincere and soundly argued: they may appear at first provocative or over-idealistic, but just wait; in years to come they are likely to be seen as a prescient articulation of a way forward for securing the dignity of our first Australians." – Geoffrey Robertson QC, from the Foreword
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- PublisherFederation Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1760020834
- ISBN 13 9781760020835
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. If governments of Australia agreed to share power with Aboriginal people, what would the result be? And if Australia was to have a settlement or a treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, what would a treaty deal with and how would a treaty affect the general public? Is there anything beyond a treaty?\nTreaty and Statehood: Aboriginal Self-determination, by Aboriginal author Michael Mansell, answers these questions and more. Mansell examines the New Zealand model of designated Maori seats and applies the idea to comprise 12 Indigenous Senators in Australia. He argues designated seats and a treaty are constitutionally permissible, and details the possible content for a treaty. He discusses the meaning of self-determination and its limitations, and also thoroughly reviews Aboriginal sovereignty and its function in a modern Australia.\nThe book critically examines the legality of designated seats, treaty, sharing of power and autonomous communities. The legal examination is broken down into easy-to-understand language. Ultimately, Mansell looks at whether justice can best be served to Aboriginal people through a new State of Australia.\nThis new idea of a seventh State or First State for the First peoples, as the author prefers is constitutionally legal. Its practicality is also critically examined, including the rights each Aboriginal community or nation would have under statehood.\nThis is a book that answers our query about what reconciliation ultimately means and how it can be achieved.\n"His strongly expressed opinions are always sincere and soundly argued: they may appear at first provocative or over-idealistic, but just wait; in years to come they are likely to be seen as a prescient articulation of a way forward for securing the dignity of our first Australians." Geoffrey Robertson QC, from the Foreword\nIn the media\n\nAn Indigenous seventh state: a radical idea from a constitutional conservative, Stan Grant, ABC News, 3 Jun 2017 Read article.\nNew book examines justice, Jillian Mundy, The Koori Mail, 25 January 2017 Read article.\nAboriginal lawyer and activist Michael Mansell has written a new book, Holly Monery, The Examiner, 28 December 2016 Read article.\nMansell draws new boundaries for Aboriginal state, Wendy Caccetta, National Indigenous Times, 21 December 2016 Read article.\nTreatys benefits, Opinion Letter by Michael Mansell, The Australian, 19 December 2016 Read letter.\nIndigenous spending to double, warns Michael Mansell, Stephen Fitzpatrick, The Australian, 16 December 2016 Read article.\nMichael Mansell on Sky News, The Bolt Report with Andrew Bolt, 15 December 2016 Listen to interview.\nAustralia should create seventh state run by Indigenous people, lawyer Michael Mansell says, Dan Conifer, ABC News, 14 December 2016 Read article.\n This is a book that answers our query about what reconciliation ultimately means and how it can be achieved. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781760020835
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. If governments of Australia agreed to share power with Aboriginal people, what would the result be? And if Australia was to have a settlement or a treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, what would a treaty deal with and how would a treaty affect the general public? Is there anything beyond a treaty?\nTreaty and Statehood: Aboriginal Self-determination, by Aboriginal author Michael Mansell, answers these questions and more. Mansell examines the New Zealand model of designated Maori seats and applies the idea to comprise 12 Indigenous Senators in Australia. He argues designated seats and a treaty are constitutionally permissible, and details the possible content for a treaty. He discusses the meaning of self-determination and its limitations, and also thoroughly reviews Aboriginal sovereignty and its function in a modern Australia.\nThe book critically examines the legality of designated seats, treaty, sharing of power and autonomous communities. The legal examination is broken down into easy-to-understand language. Ultimately, Mansell looks at whether justice can best be served to Aboriginal people through a new State of Australia.\nThis new idea of a seventh State or First State for the First peoples, as the author prefers is constitutionally legal. Its practicality is also critically examined, including the rights each Aboriginal community or nation would have under statehood.\nThis is a book that answers our query about what reconciliation ultimately means and how it can be achieved.\n"His strongly expressed opinions are always sincere and soundly argued: they may appear at first provocative or over-idealistic, but just wait; in years to come they are likely to be seen as a prescient articulation of a way forward for securing the dignity of our first Australians." Geoffrey Robertson QC, from the Foreword\nIn the media\n\nAn Indigenous seventh state: a radical idea from a constitutional conservative, Stan Grant, ABC News, 3 Jun 2017 Read article.\nNew book examines justice, Jillian Mundy, The Koori Mail, 25 January 2017 Read article.\nAboriginal lawyer and activist Michael Mansell has written a new book, Holly Monery, The Examiner, 28 December 2016 Read article.\nMansell draws new boundaries for Aboriginal state, Wendy Caccetta, National Indigenous Times, 21 December 2016 Read article.\nTreatys benefits, Opinion Letter by Michael Mansell, The Australian, 19 December 2016 Read letter.\nIndigenous spending to double, warns Michael Mansell, Stephen Fitzpatrick, The Australian, 16 December 2016 Read article.\nMichael Mansell on Sky News, The Bolt Report with Andrew Bolt, 15 December 2016 Listen to interview.\nAustralia should create seventh state run by Indigenous people, lawyer Michael Mansell says, Dan Conifer, ABC News, 14 December 2016 Read article.\n This is a book that answers our query about what reconciliation ultimately means and how it can be achieved. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781760020835
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. If governments of Australia agreed to share power with Aboriginal people, what would the result be? And if Australia was to have a settlement or a treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, what would a treaty deal with and how would a treaty affect the general public? Is there anything beyond a treaty?\nTreaty and Statehood: Aboriginal Self-determination, by Aboriginal author Michael Mansell, answers these questions and more. Mansell examines the New Zealand model of designated Maori seats and applies the idea to comprise 12 Indigenous Senators in Australia. He argues designated seats and a treaty are constitutionally permissible, and details the possible content for a treaty. He discusses the meaning of self-determination and its limitations, and also thoroughly reviews Aboriginal sovereignty and its function in a modern Australia.\nThe book critically examines the legality of designated seats, treaty, sharing of power and autonomous communities. The legal examination is broken down into easy-to-understand language. Ultimately, Mansell looks at whether justice can best be served to Aboriginal people through a new State of Australia.\nThis new idea of a seventh State or First State for the First peoples, as the author prefers is constitutionally legal. Its practicality is also critically examined, including the rights each Aboriginal community or nation would have under statehood.\nThis is a book that answers our query about what reconciliation ultimately means and how it can be achieved.\n"His strongly expressed opinions are always sincere and soundly argued: they may appear at first provocative or over-idealistic, but just wait; in years to come they are likely to be seen as a prescient articulation of a way forward for securing the dignity of our first Australians." Geoffrey Robertson QC, from the Foreword\nIn the media\n\nAn Indigenous seventh state: a radical idea from a constitutional conservative, Stan Grant, ABC News, 3 Jun 2017 Read article.\nNew book examines justice, Jillian Mundy, The Koori Mail, 25 January 2017 Read article.\nAboriginal lawyer and activist Michael Mansell has written a new book, Holly Monery, The Examiner, 28 December 2016 Read article.\nMansell draws new boundaries for Aboriginal state, Wendy Caccetta, National Indigenous Times, 21 December 2016 Read article.\nTreatys benefits, Opinion Letter by Michael Mansell, The Australian, 19 December 2016 Read letter.\nIndigenous spending to double, warns Michael Mansell, Stephen Fitzpatrick, The Australian, 16 December 2016 Read article.\nMichael Mansell on Sky News, The Bolt Report with Andrew Bolt, 15 December 2016 Listen to interview.\nAustralia should create seventh state run by Indigenous people, lawyer Michael Mansell says, Dan Conifer, ABC News, 14 December 2016 Read article.\n This is a book that answers our query about what reconciliation ultimately means and how it can be achieved. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781760020835
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