Beyond Genocide: a comparative analysis of the elimination of Australia’s Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people

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Thomas Crotty

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This paper explores the applicability of the term genocide to Australian colonisation, and considers whether the scholar Patrick Wolfe’s concept of settler colonialism’s inherent “logic of elimination” provides a more useful framework for considering Australian history.

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Beyond Genocide: a comparative analysis of the elimination of Australia’s Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people. (2018). NEW: Emerging Scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies, 2(1), 32-37. https://doi.org/10.5130/nesais.v2i1.1470