State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples

This book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples.

Francesca Dominello is Senior Lecturer in the Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She currently researches and teaches in the areas of Indigenous peoples and the law and family law from a social justice perspective.

1. Introduction 2. Making apologies: what do they do? 3. Sorry for what? Examining the Rudd and Harper apologies in their historical contexts 4. The Rudd and Harper apologies critically examined 5. Apology making as a relational process: re-focusing the Rudd and Harper apologies on Indigenous peoples 6. Australia post-apology 7. Canada post-apology