Overcoming Disadvantage: Past Lessons for Indigenous Futures : Brian Ross Roberts : 9780995382466 : 0995382468 : 15 Mar 2019 : This extensive compilation with comprehensive index represents two decades of personal research on Indigenous culture and spirituality. It analyses group identity and seeks to highlight the fundamental building blocks or 'essence' of Aboriginal well-being. The author extracts the critical issues faced by Indigenous communities and relates these to mainstream behavioural norms by drawing on the writings of Pearson, Sutton, Langton, Johns and many others, as well as comparing the values of globally dominant theologies with Aboriginal customs and values. In the contemporary era of political correctness, the ground-breaking marshalling of the author's evidence may be provocative, but this re-focussed insight may offer a clearer map of new worldviews. The author deplores the historic injustices that dispossessed Australia's first people but warns against the self-de