Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts

Name: Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781921410185
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Indigenous Health in Northern Australia

By Tess Lea

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Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts provides an intimate exploration of the efforts to end Aboriginal disadvantage in northern Australia. Tess Lea delves into the complexities of bureaucracy, revealing how its structures create an appearance of action while sometimes perpetuating systemic issues. The book thoughtfully examines how well-meaning health initiatives have led to unforeseen dependencies and failures, presenting a nuanced view of the challenges faced by those working within and alongside government agencies to improve Aboriginal health.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in Australian Aboriginal issues, public policy, healthcare, and the sociology of bureaucracy. It will appeal to students and professionals in education, social work, health services, and government administration seeking a critical yet empathetic perspective on longstanding social challenges.

Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts

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Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts takes you on an intimate journey into the lives of people armed with the task of ending Australian Aboriginal disadvantage in the frontier north of Australia.

Taking a fresh look at longstanding issues, Lea examines the culture of bureaucracy, its need to create the look of action, and how intelligent inhabitants uphold the apparatus of government even whilst they critique it.

She explores how benevolent efforts to improve health have brought about unexpected co-dependencies and tragic failures. Lea paints a sympathetic yet discomforting portrait of those who, working on behalf of and for Aboriginal health, fiercely defend the ideas and principles that paradoxically reinstate the primary need for greater levels of government intervention.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781921410185

Publisher: UNSW Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2008

Country: Australia

Imprint: UNSW Press

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 455g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

Tess Lea was born, raised, evacuated, schooled and otherwise taught key life lessons in Darwin. She is an anthropologist whose work both explores why Indig-enous social policies so often fail and enacts practical collaborations for doing something about these failure-scapes. As her book suggests, she has tough answers for why things fail answers which suggest a military industrial extractive settler complex still needs to be reckoned with yet she also understands why Darwin the place gets under your skin.

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