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"More a case of remember than imagine...
It might help if we non-Aboriginal Australians imagined ourselves dispossessed of the land we lived on for 50 000 years, and then imagined ourselves told that it had never been ours. Imagine if ours was the oldest culture in the world and we were told that it was worthless. Imagine if we had resisted this settlement, suffered and died in the defence of our land, and then were told in history books that we had given it up without a fight. Imagine if non-Aboriginal Australians had served their country in peace and war and were then ignored in history books. Imagine if our feats on the sporting field has inspired admiration and patriotism and yet did nothing to diminish prejudice. Imagine if our spiritual life was denied and ridiculed. Imagine if we had suffered the injustice and then were blamed for it."
COMMENT BY MAIIA "Short Memory must have a short memory" - Midnight Oil
More a case of remember than imagine, Greenman Exhibition
Maiia; -I worked around the Greenman theme for several reasons, including recognition of a white Indigenous history. The pre-modern Anglo-celtic traditions have been lost by the European diaspora as they left their homelands and or were assimilated with Romans, Normans, Saxons etc. Language being a key to maintanance and renewal. Ireland Aotearoa - Kohanga Reo
Mr Keating couldn't soft-shoe shuffle around the facts on World Indigenous Year. So thanks to computer communications I feel a great sense of hope for achieving real social change in Australia as the world which has a great love, fascination and respect for Indigenous Australia, looks on and demands accountability.
'incidents' of injustice are less possible with the world watching
and dobbing. As in the Mulrunji case that went all overseas. After all as the conservative' might say- we need Law and Order -and accountability is a great deterrent.
I like what mr Keating was saying, wonder if he wrote it himself... it must have been quite a task for I perceive the truth is often side-stepped lest it be taken as a measure/admission of guilt/ culpability. Terra Nullius The Mabo Decision -High Court of Australia
Educational adjustments are nearly as slow to make as changes to law. Net neutrality
However 'incidents' of injustice are less possible when the world is watching and dobbing. As in the Mulrunji case that went all overseas.
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