1st Edition
State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples Law, Politics, Ethics
By Francesca Dominello
Copyright 2025
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples.
The prevalent tendency to treat an apology as a speech act has maintained the focus on the state leader making the apology and not on the victims’ claims. This book demonstrates the inherent shortcomings of this approach through an examination of apologies delivered to Indigenous peoples in Australia and... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Making apologies: what do they do? 3. Sorry for what? Examining the Rudd and Harper apologies in their historical contexts 4. The Rudd and Harper apologies critically examined 5. Apology making as a relational process: re-focusing the Rudd and Harper apologies on Indigenous peoples 6. Australia post-apology 7. Canada post-apology
Biography
Francesca Dominello is Senior Lecturer in the Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She currently researches and teaches in the areas of Indigenous peoples and the law and family law from a social justice perspective.
