Colin Tatz

Professor, Shalom College, University of Southern Wales, Australia

Presentation Sport as a life saver - Play the Game 2005 (Pdf.) Colin Tatz was born and educated in South Africa. At the University of Natal he completed his BA (Law), BA (Hons) and MA (Hons) in political science. He came to Australia in 1961.

In 1964, he was awarded his PhD from the Australian National University, for work on the policies and practices of Aboriginal administration in the Northern Territory and Queensland.

His first job was at Monash University early in 1964: there he founded and directed the Aboriginal [now Indigenous Studies] Research Centre.

From 1971 to 1982 he was Foundation Professor of Politics at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW.

In 1982 he took the chair of politics at Macquarie University, Sydney, from which he retired on 9 July 1999.

He is now Visiting Professor of Politics at Macquarie. He is also the Director of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Shalom Institute, University of New South Wales.

In 1997 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Natal University. His major books include:

Shadow and Substance in South Africa (1962), Race Politics in Australia (1979)

Aborigines and Uranium and Other Essays (1982)

Aborigines in Sport (1987)

The Royal Sydney Golf Club: The First Hundred Years (1993)

Obstacle Race: Aborigines in Sport (1995), (with Paul Tatz)

Black Diamonds: the Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame (1996)

One-Eyed: A View of Australian Sport, with Douglas Booth (2000), Black Gold (with Paul Tatz) in 2000

Aboriginal Suicide is Different in 2001

He edited Black Viewpoints (1975) and was author in, and co-editor of, Aborigines in the Economy (1966), Aborigines and Education (1969), Aborigines and Uranium (1984), Genocide Perspectives I (1997), Genocide Perspectives II (2002) and A Course of History: Mon ash Country Club, 19312001 (2002).

His new book, With Intent to Destroy: Reflecting on Genocide, will be published by Verso in London in March 2003.

He has also contributed forty chapters to books and he has published important articles on race politics, genocide, the Holocaust and antisemitism, and racism in sport.

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