Australia's Commonwealth Self-determination Policy 1972-1998 : the imagined nation and the continuing control of indigenous existence / Stephen Jenkins.

"September 2002."Includes bibliographical references (leaves 336-366)vii, 366 leaves ; 30 cm.Argues that the Australian nation is the primary obstacle to the granting of self-determination to indigenous people because it is imagined and constituted as a monocultural entity, one that resists any divisions within the national space on the basis of culture or 'race'.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Politics, 200