Boyer Lectures

05 | Counting Our Victories: the end of Garvey-ism and the soft bigotry of low expectation

12.16.2012 - By ABC listenPlay

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In her final lecture, Professor Langton reflects on the economic transformation underway in the lives of Aboriginal people -- from increasing Indigenous enrolments in higher education, through rising employment in mining and other rural industries, to the explosion of cultural production by Aboriginal people into the Australian mainstream not only on canvas and on the stage, but also in music, literature, cinema  and television.

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