Gary Johns: Aboriginal Self-Determination: The Whiteman’s Dream (ConnorCourt)
Gary Johns belongs to the Bennelong Society. They are pessimistic about the efficacy of Aboriginal ‘culture’ and he sees it at best as a serviceable culture for the Stone Age. “There is a gap between modern and pre-modern societies. Denying its existence and the considerable efforts required on the part of individuals to bridge it has been very harmful.”
He asks: “What are Aborigines fighting for what is there to preserve? What survives of Aboriginal Australian is nothing like 200 years ago so what culture is it and whose is it?”