Book Review: Representing Aboriginal childhood: The politics of memory and forgetting in Australia by Joanne Faulkner

Abstract

This contribution begins by reviewing Faulkner's monograph, and then brings it into dialogue with the Ngaga-Dji report by KYC, the peak body for Aboriginal young people in Victoria, Australia. While Faulkner's book is not explicitly about the criminalisation of Aboriginal children in Australia, resonances between the two begin to trace an important, transformative vision for what justice might mean in settler-colonial contexts, particularly if it eschews settler-colonial notions of punishment and exclusion