Towards closure? Coexistence, remoteness and righteousness in Indigenous policy in Australia
Towards closure? Coexistence, remoteness and righteousness in Indigenous policy in Australia
Australian Geographer
- Author(s): Howitt, Richard, McLean, Jessica
- Published: 2015
- Publisher: Routledge
- Volume: 46
- ISBN: 0004-9182
Abstract: The policy framework claiming to support Indigenous people in remote parts of Australia is in disarray with Commonwealth, state and territory governments proposing closure of remote communities on a range of economic and social policy grounds, but facing significant criticism on economic, environmental, social and cultural grounds. Western Australia's proposal to close 150 remote communities, announced in late-2014, is reviewed and found to reveal a profound failure of geographical literacy.
- Urls: https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2015.1020992
- Keywords: Indigenous rights, Indigenous geographies, remoteness, locational disadvantage