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The Truth of SA’s ‘Stolen Generations’

  • Tony Thomas
  • 10th January 2017
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Papers rescued from a landfill, painstakingly unearthed archival material, long-forgotten records, diary entries and correspondence put pay to the myth that racist policies saw many Aboriginal children removed from their parents. The reasons were good and the numbers tiny

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First Contact’s First Sin

  • Anthony Dillon
  • 22nd December 2016
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The SBS series was valuable, but might have achieved much more had it eschewed the easy and obligatory voicing of several participants' 'white guilt'. First, that sentiment is unwarranted. Second, self-laceration doesn't do a thing to get the rubbish cleaned up

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Black Lives Don’t Matter

  • Tanya Rosecky
  • 8th December 2016
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No activist of the sort the ABC keeps on speed dial will admit as much, but their refusal to address the dreadful circumstances of so many women and kids in so many dysfunctional communities says it all. Why talk of grog and violence when there is a cartoonist to crucify?

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The Shame of Gillian Triggs

  • Anthony Dillon
  • 13th November 2016
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The absurd complaint against Bill Leak and his infamous cartoon has ended with Gillian Triggs' & Co throwing in the towel and "closing the books". That children suffer while feather-nested thought police suppress discussion of their wasted lives is the real obscenity

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Recognising Some Difficult Questions

  • Bill Martin
  • 23rd September 2016
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If Aborigines are to be written into the Constitution, what is that must be added? More than that, will a few sentences of feel-good boilerplate make the slightest difference in remedying the dysfunction and abuse that marks so many Indigenous communities?

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Three Rules for Racism Spotters

  • Anthony Dillon
  • 5th September 2016
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First, know that accusing someone of racism is enough, as a mob of keyboard warriors will soon take up and amplify the cry. Second, don't spare the emotive language. And finally, close tight your eyes to demonstrable fact and inconvenient evidence

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The Oh-So-Easy Habit of Taking Offence

  • Anthony Dillon
  • 21st August 2016
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Bill Leak's cartoon set the twittering class to displays of by-the-numbers outrage. Rather than hashtag sermons they might have addressed the actual causes and problems afflicting so many Aborigines. Yes, they might have done that but, sadly, they never will

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Indigenous Suicide and ‘Culture’

  • Anthony Dillon
  • 27th July 2016
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Apart from calls for yet another royal commission, what sense can we draw from the appalling number of Aborigines who die by their hands? Again, we hear that a renewed celebration of heritage will make all the difference, yet suicide in remote communities is far more common

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Secret Rhetoric Business

  • Anthony Dillon
  • 27th May 2016
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Words can be troublesome things, as their accepted meanings might derail an advocate's invoking of emotion in lieu of the more relevant examination of unpalatable fact. No wonder so many discussions of Indigenous betterment come couched in the vocabulary of vacuity

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Genuflecting Before Savagery

  • Tony Thomas
  • 6th April 2016
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The University of NSW demands a keen reverence for the ways and customs of "pre-invasion" Aborigines -- an astonishing admonition in the light of current attention to domestic violence. Were those same standards embraced on campus, few female professors, lecturers or students would go unscarred

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