Title Reluctant Representatives : Blackfella bureaucrats speak in Australia's north.

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Canberra : ANU Press, 2016.

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Description	1 online resource (232 pages).
Series	Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) ; v.37
	Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR)
Note	Description based upon print version of record.
Contents	List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 'Just bums on seats'?; Introduction; Beyond tokens and advocates; A working theory of bureaucracy; One hundred hours of speech; Guide to the book; The Northern Territory's turnstile ticker; The original 10 per cent; Target practice in the early years of self-government; 'Are you a radical black?'; Mirror, mirror ...: Steady numbers; A longstanding and ambivalent invitation; Accepting the representative invitation; A toe in the water: Depicting likeness; Plunging in: Drawing on identity; Deeper: Pinning down the absent; Trusteeship
	The limits of acceptance; Downsides of trusteeship: 'Is that what Aboriginal people think?'; Substitutive moments: 'I'll ask Bertie, he's Indigenous!'; Declining the invitation: Stories of exit; The Indigenous sector orbit: Resolving ethical ambivalence?; Sustainable selves: Recognition and role modelling; Representing Aboriginal people to government: Improving the terms of recognition; Representing government to Aboriginal people: Speaking to others; Entitlement and connection: 'It's my home town'; The present-absent relationship; Speaking truth to theory; The ambivalent invitation
	Why role models are interesting; Meeting Indigenous employment targets: A ménage à trois; A conversation starter; Bibliography; Index; Figure 1. Work themes; Table 1: Seniority by Northern Territory Public Service (NTPS) employment status ; Table 2: Indigenous employment rates in the Northern Territory Public Service (NTPS) 1978-2008; Table 3: Experience of fostering/child removal by place of origin; Table 4: A regionalised representative bureaucracy: Northern Territory Public Service (NTPS) work location by region of origin
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	GMD: electronic resource.
Subject	Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
	Torres Strait Islanders -- Government relations.
	Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government.
	Torres Strait Islanders -- Politics and government.
	Representative government and representation -- Australia.
	Australia -- Politics and government -- Citizen participation.
	Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations. (OCoLC)fst00794522
	Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst00794551
	Politics and government -- Citizen participation. (OCoLC)fst01919751
	Representative government and representation. (OCoLC)fst01094941
	Torres Strait Islanders -- Government relations. (OCoLC)fst01152832
	Torres Strait Islanders -- Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01152845
	Australia. (OCoLC)fst01204543
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Australian & Oceanian.
Other Form:	Print version: Ganter, Elizabeth Reluctant Representatives : Blackfella bureaucrats speak in Australia's north Canberra : ANU Press,c2016 9781760460327
ISBN	9781760460334 (electronic bk.)
	1760460338 (electronic bk.)
	9781760460327
	176046032X

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