Ned Kelly Died for our Sins

Deborah Bird Rose*

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    Abstract

    From time to time scholars have posed the question: why have Australian Aborigines not developed cargo cults with the same intensity and flamboyance as their Melanesian neighbours? This discussion evades the implications that Aborigines may have been negligent in their cultural production of responses to colonisation, and seeks to engage with some of the responses some Aboriginal people actually have made to colonisation. Focussing on stories of Ned Kelly, and contrasting them with stories of Captain Cook, the suggestion here is that Aboriginal people's search for a moral European communicates the challenging and provocative possibility that coloniser and colonised can share a moral history and thus can fashion a just society.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)175-186
    Number of pages12
    JournalOceania
    Volume65
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1994

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