What Good Condition?: Reflections on an Australian Aboriginal Treaty 1986-2006

What Good Condition?......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
What Good Condition?......Page 9
Foreword......Page 10
Put not your faith in princes (or courts) - agreements made from asymmetrical power bases......Page 13
National encounters between Indigenous and settler peoples......Page 27
Doubts about the treaty......Page 43
Reflections on the history of Indigenous people\'s struggle for human rights in Australia......Page 53
The political aspects of creating a treaty......Page 63
From enforceability to feel-good......Page 83
The challenge for Australia......Page 101
A treaty for whom?......Page 111
What is a treaty?......Page 117
Treaty: advancing reconciliation?......Page 135
International human rights......Page 147
Consent,, common law and native title......Page 169
\'Treaty\': what\'s in a name?......Page 175
Customary law and treaty......Page 183
Missed meanings......Page 189
Regional agreements, higher education and representations of Indigenous Australian reality......Page 203
Native title holding communities as treaty parties......Page 219
The Cape York view......Page 233
The Coolangatta Statement on Indigenous Peoples\' Rights in Education......Page 241
Biographical notes......Page 249