Roberts' Rule: Tribal identity is proportional to discrimination by outsiders.

ESSAYS ON ABORIGINALISM is the first collection from Dr Brian Roberts on Indigenous Futures and aims to present a more nuanced alternative to the simplistic Left/Right binary view offered by the contemporary Australian commentariat. The essays revisit the worldview of the de-colonisation idealists and employ the records of global colonisation as a means of rationalising historic migrations.

Dr Roberts attempts to counter local Indigenous exceptionalism with a detailed description of how his First...