Description
In Citizens Plus, Alan Cairns unravels the historical record to elucidate the present impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state. He considers the assimilationist policy assumptions of the imperial era, examines more latest government initiatives, and analyzes the emergence of the nation-to-nation paradigm given massive fortify by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Citizens Plus stakes out a center ground with its fortify for constitutional and institutional arrangements in order to concurrently acknowledge Aboriginal difference and beef up not unusual citizenship.