The politics of suffering: Indigenous policy in Australia since the 1970s
The politics of suffering: Indigenous policy in Australia since the 1970s
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苦难的政治：20世纪70年代以来澳大利亚的原住民政策
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2001
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P. Sutton
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像库尼茨和其他人一样（见下文），我准备冒这个风险，因为在这里讨论的问题的边缘修修补补的时间已经过去了。在澳大利亚，所谓的“土著人不利地位”的趋势在关键领域没有显示出足够的改善迹象，不允许对现有方法的正确性有任何进一步的自满;事实上，根据我30多年来的个人观察和现有的统计数据，许多土著人的福祉在最近几十年实际上有所下降。当然，也有其他人没有这样做，但在一些地方，特别是但不完全是偏远的定居点，情况已经急剧恶化，大多数更广泛的公众只是模糊地意识到，如果有的话。进步主义者关于赋权和自决的公开言论与20世纪70年代初以来澳大利亚土著事务政策主要方面灾难性失败的原始证据之间的对比现在令人恐惧。如果要对这场危机做出有意义的回应，政策修订就必须回到根本问题上，放弃一切赌注。这意味着，一切，包括阿尔蒂® cially永久化“内地贫民区”或其他类似的官僚机构的问题，鼓励社团主义反对
Like Kunitz and others (see below), I am prepared to run this risk because the time is over for tinkering around the edges of the problems discussed here. The trend of what is called Ìndigenous disadvantage’ in Australia does not show enough signs of improvement in critical areas to allow for any further complacency about the correctness of existing approaches; indeed, many Aboriginal people, both in my personal observation over 30 years and also on the available statistics, have actually suffered a decline in well-being in recent decades. There are, of course, others who have not, but in a number of places, especially but not exclusively remote settlements, there has been a dramatic decline into conditions of which most of the wider public is only dimly aware if at all. The contrast between progressivist public rhetoric about empowerment and self-determination and the raw evidence of a disastrous failure in major aspects of Australian Aboriginal affairs policy since the early 1970s is now frightening. Policy revision must go back to bedrock questions, with all bets off, if it is to respond meaningfully to this crisis. This means that everything, including the question of arti® cially perpetuating `outback ghettos’ 3 or other similar bureaucratically maintained institutions, the encouragement of corporatism as against the