'Another important contribution to the growing literature on critical social work. It is on the
cutting edge of thinking about social work and its goal of social change.'-Kate van Heugten …

Post September 11 migration has increasingly been framed as a security problem. In the
2010 Australian election campaign migration was connected to security (defence of our …

Purpose–This paper aims to trace the genealogy of state violence on Palm Island to argue
forms of “colonial” control over Indigenous governance and organisational life persist in …

What does it mean to say that a nation-state is secular? Secular law typically begins when a
state has no religious competitor for authority. For this reason, it can be said that the …

In this paper, I suggest that the category of 'ward,'a designation used for Aboriginal
Australians in the 1950s and 1960s, has re-emerged in contemporary Northern Territory …

Much has been written about the protectionist laws that regulated and controlled the lives of
Indigenous Queenslanders during the twentieth century. However, much less is known of …

In this dissertation, I explore how logics of enclosure underscore policies about national
identity, citizenship, and belonging in Australia. Darwin, the capital of Australia's Northern …

The focus of this chapter is to examine social construction of a contemporary nation. This will
first allow us to comment on the racialised discourse that produces a white Australia and …