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ABSTRACT When analysing Indigenous public policy, crisis is best seen as the moral crisis of an enduring idea rather than the crisis of sporadic and unconnected instances of policy failure. In Australia and New Zealand, states use manufactured crises of Indigenous personal deficiencies to justify colonial authority. A justification which may be countered by positioning colonialism itself as the point of crisis. From this perspective, the crisis in Indigenous public policy is not resolved by the state becoming better at policy-making or more attentive to the egalitarian distribution of public resources. Instead, it is in the non-colonial possibilities of Indigenous self-determination that paths beyond crisis may lie. In practical terms, by ensuring spaces of independent Indigenous authority alongside spaces of distinctive culturally framed participation in the public life of the state. The potential for such arrangements in Australia is discussed with reference to a proposed First Nations’ Voice to Parliament and possible treaties between First Nations and the state. For New Zealand, their potential is discussed with reference to te Tiriti o Waitangi’s affirmation of independent Māori authority (rangatiratanga) and substantive state citizenship.
摘要在分析土著公共政策时,危机最好被视为一个持久理念的道德危机,而不是零星和不相关的政策失败案例的危机。在澳大利亚和新西兰,各州利用人为制造的原住民个人缺陷危机来证明殖民权威的正当性。可以通过将殖民主义本身定位为危机点来反驳这一理由。从这个角度来看,土著公共政策的危机并不是通过国家变得更善于决策或更注重公共资源的平等分配来解决的。相反,正是在土著自决的非殖民可能性中,才有可能走出危机。在实践中,通过确保独立的土著权力空间与独特的文化框架参与国家公共生活的空间。在澳大利亚,此类安排的潜力将参照拟议的原住民议会之声以及原住民与国家之间可能签订的条约进行讨论。对于新西兰来说,他们的潜力是参照te Tiriti o Waitangi对独立的毛利人权威(rangatiratanga)和实质性国家公民身份的肯定来讨论的。
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