Rights for Aborigines.(Book Review) From: Australian Aboriginal Studies | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Hindess, Barry | COPYRIGHT 2004 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Rights for Aborigines

Bain Attwood

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2003, xiv + 410 pp, ISBN 1864489839

Ronald Dworkin's argument, in Taking rights seriously (1981), that rights are trumps that should prevail over all but the most exceptional of policy considerations, may seem quaintly anachronistic today, in the time of a widely proclaimed war on terrorism, but some such view still dominates academic discussion of rights. Rights are seen as setting limits t...

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