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The Anatomy of a Post-Colonial Truck Stop: Some Dilemmas Facing Four Public Servants
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This dialogue analyses and illuminates the lived experience of a school principal, a classroom teacher, a special needs tutor and a local government manager as they follow directions emanating from a plan to transform a postcolonial truck stop Aboriginal community, with its remnant transplanted traditional culture and its social services dependent economy into a modern small town with an Anglo Australian culture and economy. It is a record of the lived experience of professionals in the service of postcolonial state and local government agencies tasked to implement a joint State and Federal Government policy to fund remote disadvantaged towns to bring them into line with mainstream (read non-Aboriginal) towns in terms of essential services, infrastructure and planning known as the "Growth Town Initiative". It is a dialogue that seeks to examine the impact of the "Growth Town Policy" on those tasked to implement it. By examining the interaction of some of the protagonists in an officially orchestrated culture clash, the dialogue seeks to provide insights into an evolving Australian postcolonial situation.
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Postcolinialism, Neo-Colonialism, Globalism and Localism.
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