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While not an official policy, sovereignty is the ultimate aim of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. Sovereignty will mean that Aboriginal people will be the primary figures in the decision-making processes for Australia.
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(1991-present) Policy of recognising past injusticies towards Aboriginal Australians and fostering an understanding of how past events, policies and attitudes have shaped Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relationships.
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The value of Aboriginal culture begins to be recognised as something that should not be diminished, but rather embraced. Aboriginal people have the right to retain their languages and customs and to maintain their own distinctive communities.
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Expectation that Aborigines who were ‘not of full blood’ would give up their culture and heritage. In its place they were expected to adopt and conform to the attitudes, customs and beliefs of the white Anglo-Saxon majority.
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Extensive policies of ‘protection’ were formulated, aimed at isolating and segregating full-blood Aborigines on reserves and missions that restricted contact (and interbreeding) between them and outsiders, while attempting to assimilate half-castes.
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(1972-1990) A group’s right to choose and control its own destiny and development. Encourages Aboriginal participation or control in local communities. Government support programs are managed by Aboriginal corporations.
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