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This course introduces and engages students with contemporary Indigenous Australian politics, societies and issues in the comparative context of settler colonial societies. This course will provide students with the opportunity to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and contexts.

This course will introduce students to a broad range of issues of relevance to contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities. While there will be emphasis on South East and Western Queensland, students will also gain an understanding of regional variation and place based cultures across Australia. Issues will include, but not be limited to, identity, land, history, policy and politics. Through an analysis of contemporary society, the course will examine the historical dispossession and exclusion that left Aboriginal and Islander peoples as non-citizens and without rights. The process to 'reconciliation' through citizenship and self-determination/management and the current debates around sovereignty, constitutional recognition and Treaties will all be explored. This course will privilege Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders writers/theorists, elders and positions.

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

1. demonstrate analytical skills to evaluate the relationship between history and policy in an Indigenous Australian context.
2. critically analyse the complex political processes that produce dispossession.
3. examine and identify Indigenous knowledge through academic processes.
4. examine contemporary political institutions and processes, policies and their ongoing and historical role in dispossession.
5. demonstrate suitable Indigenous research methods to address social issues involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.