Editor's Column

The Lying Art of Truth-Telling

Even if we consider a figure of 100,000 [Aborigines killed by whites in the frontier wars] it dramatically changes the nature of the national narrative. Such a startling denouement cannot be easily assimilated into long-known plots. The figure is equal to all Australians who have died in all our much storied wars overseas. Truth-telling is now more important than ever. —Henry Reynolds The Aboriginal elite who devised the Voice to Parliament insist there are two inherent concepts that must be fulfilled: treaty-making and truth-telling. Yet neither of these concepts has so far generated much public debate. Nonetheless, because they are…

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