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This unique book explores suicide as more than just a manner of death. It challenges the myths, beliefs, dogma, and customs of suicide from the earliest theories. It offers fresh insights into dark spaces. World-wide, suicide deaths are three times greater than homicides, and are increasing. Current approaches to stem this 'epidemic' are not working, or have very limited success. Mental health interventions, theories about a suicide or a depre...

Genocide isn't past tense and the Nazi and Bosnian eras are not yet closed. The demonising of people as 'unworthy' and expendable is ever-present and the consequences are all too evident in the daily news. These fourteen essays by Australian scholars confront the issues: the need for a measuring scale that encompasses differences and similarities between seemingly divergent cases of the crime, the complicity of bureaucracies, the healing profe...

This unique book explores suicide as more than just a manner of death. It challenges the myths, beliefs, dogma, and customs of suicide from the earliest theories. It offers fresh insights into dark spaces. World-wide, suicide deaths are three times greater than homicides, and are increasing. Current approaches to stem this ‘epidemic’ are not working, or have very limited success. Mental health interventions, theories about a suicide or a depre...

The sporting ground for our people has been a ground of truth and reconciliation, a proving ground for young men and women where black and white meet and play on equal terms and agreed rules. Black Gold shares the proud history of First Nations sportspeople in shaping the sporting history of Australia. It is a story that can be told and retold.-- Senator Patrick Dodson". School of Arts. He is the co-author of two books with Colin Tatz, Evonne ...

We are a moral people" and the very notion that Australians could have anything to do with genocide is unthinkable-so claimed parliamentarians when Australia was asked to ratify the UN's Genocide Convention in 1949. The reality is that even decent democrats and people who consider themselves good colonists are capable of doing just that-killing people because of who they were, forcibly removing their children in order to assimilate them and er...

We are a moral people" and the very notion that Australians could have anything to do with genocide is unthinkable-so claimed parliamentarians when Australia was asked to ratify the UN's Genocide Convention in 1949. The reality is that even decent democrats and people who consider themselves good colonists are capable of doing just that-killing people because of who they were, forcibly removing their children in order to assimilate them and er...

This book defines genocide, distinguishing it from mass murder, war crimes, and other atrocities, allows readers to grasp the magnitude of the crime of genocide across time and throughout human civilization, and facilitates an understanding of new and potential cases of genocide as they occur. Recently, the topic of intervention against genocide has received attention in global politics and the national political discourse of major countries....

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Many domains are black and cruelly white. In this book Colin Tatz, a world authority on racial conflict and abuse, a key figure in Indigenous Studies in Australia and an author of major works on genocide, Aboriginal youth suicide, and Aboriginal and Islander sporting achievements, tells his personal story. Born and educated in South Africa, Tatz worked to expose and oppose that nation's centuries-old apartheid regimes before leaving for what h...

Aboriginal Suicide is Different is a study of youth who have, or feel they have, no purpose in life or who may be seeking freedom in death. It is a portrait of life, and of self-destruction, by young Australian Aboriginal men and women. To comprehend this relatively recent phenomenon, one has to appreciate Australian Aboriginal history and the effects of which contribute more to an understanding of suicide today than to psychological or medica...

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