Fear, Trust and Aborigines: The Historical Experience of State Institutions and Current Encounters in the Health System

• DOI: 10.2307/40111576
• Publication Date: 2010-11-08T17:40:49Z
• Authors: Leonie Cox
• Keywords: State of health

Troubled dynamics between residents of an Aboriginal town in Queensland and the local health system were established during colonisation consolidated those periods Australian history where policies 'protection' (segregation), integration then assimilation held sway. The status is, part, related to interactions residents' current historical experiences criminal justice systems as together these agencies used medical moral policing legitimate dispossession, marginalisation, institutionalisation control residents. punitive regulations ethnocentric strategies by institutions are within living memory many or published accounts preceding generations. This paper explores memories experiences.