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John Rawls and the Aboriginal Question
Everywhere you look these days, there is “the voice”. Of course, we had Robbie Williams at the AFL Grand Final recently belting out the old Whispering Jack 80s classic of the same name. If only we could just leave the voice at the MCG. The clever political play by Albo – make everyone who opposes our scheme look like ugly bigots for a couple of years – means that we will have to revisit all of the same old tedious questions.
As always, politicians are proposing a non-solution to a non-problem. Or, should I say in this case, a problem – endless white guilt – for which there can never be a solution. At least not a complete or even a satisfactory one. We simply cannot unmake British imperialism no matter how much we might (or might not) wish to. (Of course, British imperialism was one of many imperialisms, and some are still ongoing, like the US’s continued attachment to fighting foreign wars that are none of its business, sometimes accompanied by…
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