State Mechanisms and Conditions of Intervention: An Examination of Some Recent Official Responses to the Aboriginal Land Rights Demand

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The nature of the State and the tendencies of accumulation and legitimation are crucial to understanding the official response to the Aboriginal Land Rights demand. Land Rights has been made negotiable and the struggle for Land Rights now runs through the material relations of the State. A political struggle exists around the discourse which contains arguments for and against Land Rights. This is represented principally between the Federal Government ranged against Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory and takes the form of a struggle over the content of what is to be signified as racist. This discourse breaks down and exposes the the class nature of the State when it is confronted with a threat to the reproduction of major accumulation conditions. This creates legitimacy problems. The Noonkanbah dispute in Western Australia in 1980 and the present moves to de-gazette Queensland's Aboriginal Reserves are two examples of this.

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