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The title for this chapter is taken from the chorus of a song by Australian songwriters Paul Kelly and Key Carmody, based on the story of the Gurindji strike and Vincent Lingiari and the Gurindji (Aboriginal) people’s struggle for land rights1—which led to the first indigenous land rights legislation in the Northern Territory, followed by other land rights legislation around the country. In many ways, from little things big things grow is the story of reconciliation in general and of the national Apology to indigenous people by the Australian prime minister in 2008.
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See Patrick Dodson, “Lingiari: Until the Chains Are Broken,” in Reconciliation: Essays in Australian Reconciliation, edited by Michelle Grattan (Melbourne: Bookman Press, 2000), 264–65.
See Paul Keating, “The Redfern Park Speech,” in Reconciliation: Essays in Australian Reconciliation, edited by Michelle Grattan (Melbourne: Bookman, 2000), 60. See also website of NSW Reconciliation Council, http://www.nswreconciliation.org.au for an Internet version.
Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, Commonwealth of Australia 1997, accessible on the website of the Australian Human Rights Commission, under “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice” as on June 29, 2012. For a record of that inquiry and its aftermath, see Antonia Buti, Sir Ronald Wilson: A Matter of Conscience (Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2007), 301–76.Reconciliation Australia Website (www.reconciliation.org.au) accessed June 29, 2012.
See Robert Manne, The Barren Years: John Howard and Australian Political Culture (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2001), 66–69.With a touch of irony, an actor named also John Howard performed on television the national apology so many Australians hoped and wished that Prime Minister John Howard would give. Many hungered for such gracious words to be spoken “from the top.”
See Nina Burridge, Unfinished Business: Teaching for Reconciliation in Australian Schools (Saarbrucken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009).
Christian Brothers College Adelaide, Newsletter (July 8, 2011), 1.
See Shaun Berg, Coming to Terms: Aboriginal Title in South Australia (Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2010),
and Alan Pope, One Law for All?: Aboriginal People and Criminal Law in Early South Australia (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2011).
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Tibbey, M. (2014). From Little Things Big Things Grow. In: Havea, J. (eds) Indigenous Australia and the Unfinished Business of Theology. Postcolonialism and Religions. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426673_5
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