Australia’s Genocide Discourse and Aboriginal Politics

Political Lunch at PRIF with Sally Ghattas and comments by TraCe Visiting Fellow A. Dirk Moses

Over the heads of the audience, you can see Sally Ghattas standing and speaking. In the background there’s her presentation projected on a screen on the wall.

On July 8, thirty re­searchers and colleagues came to­gether at PRIF for a Poli­tical Lunch with Sally Ghattas from the Uni­versity of Sydney. Her input ex­plored the “Geno­cide Dis­course and Abo­riginal Politics in Aus­tralia”.

In her presen­tation she ex­plained how the term “geno­cide” has been ta­ken up in Austra­lian political dis­course. She especially high­lighted the perspec­tives of the First Nations Ac­tivists, the legal fra­ming and the on­going contes­tations in the con­text of recon­ciliation. After­wards, TraCe Visi­ting Fellow (June till Ju­ly) A. Dirk Moses from The City Uni­versity of New York commented on the in­put, before ope­ning the floor for ques­tions and dis­cussions.

Four persons stand next to a TraCe roll-up banner: A. Dirk Moses and Nurél Reitz to the left and Sabine Mannitz and Sally Ghattas to the right.

Further reading: Together with Sabine Mannitz and Núrel Reitz, Sally Ghattas and A. Dirk Moses co-authored TraCe Working Paper No. 4 on “Transformations in Genocide Discourse: Paths and Politics of Recognizing Colonial Genocides”.