Aufsatz(elektronisch)14. März 2013

The Curious Case of Mervyn Eades: National Service, Discrimination and Aboriginal People

In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 59, Heft 1, S. 63-79

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Abstract

In 1971, an Aboriginal man named Mervyn Eades was convicted for failing to register for national service. The magistrate determined that while Eades was indeed Aboriginal under Western Australian law, under the National Service Act he was not. Scrutiny of Eades' case exposes the interconnected issues of Aboriginality, racial discrimination, assimilation, federalism and conscription in the period between the 1967 Referendum and the 1972 election. Eades' conviction represented a unique junction of these seemingly disparate political issues which gradually converged. Analysis of Eades' case and the wider issue of Aboriginal people and national service highlights ongoing legislative discrimination in the immediate post‐Referendum period, the problematic status of concurrent Aboriginal affairs powers and the McMahon Liberal government's determination — ultimately unsuccessfully — to avoid conflation of conscription and race politics.

Sprachen

Englisch

Verlag

Wiley

ISSN: 1467-8497

DOI

10.1111/ajph.12004

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