Reluctant Representatives

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Label

Reluctant Representatives

Creator

• Ganter, Elizabeth

Author

• Ganter, Elizabeth

Subject

• representative bureaucracy
• aboriginal people
• Australia
• australia
• public service
• Indigenous peoples
• Public administration

Language

• eng
• eng

Summary

?How can you make decisions about Aboriginal people when you can?t even talk to the people you?ve got¡here¡that are blackfellas?? So ?Sarah?, a senior Aboriginal public servant, imagines a conversation with the Northern Territory Public Service. Her question suggests tensions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who have accepted the long-standing invitation to join the ranks of the public service. Reluctant Representatives gives us a rare glimpse into the working world of the individuals behind the Indigenous public sector employment statistics. This empathetic expos ̌of the challenges of representative bureaucracy draws on interviews with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians who have tried making it work. Through Ganter?s engaging narration, we learn that the mere presence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the public service is not enough. If bureaucracies are to represent the communities they serve, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander public servants need to be heard and need to know their people are heard

Member of

• Free online access: OAPEN

Language note

English

Literary form

unknown