A powerful article to consider during this National Reconciliation Week:
“A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished business | Julianne Schultz | The Guardian” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/01/a-shameful-death-after-a-supermarket-scuffle-shines-a-light-on-australias-unfinished-business-ntwnfb
“People are not “placed” on the floor – that is what you do with bags, boxes and rubbish. But that was the word used by the Northern Territory police” when describing what was done to the young man.
On the WA state government’s compensation offer to survivors of the stolen generations: “A measly lump sum from a state treasury grown fat from mineral resources, many from native title lands. First Nations people have a life expectancy decades lower than others, so the numbers are much smaller than they were. Delay is the most effective way of maintaining the status quo ... The WA announcement came, inexcusably, nearly three decades after the profoundly revealing and moving Bringing Them Home report. ... Pat Turner, a long-term Indigenous public servant, told Dan Bourchier on The Elders that an appropriate amount in 1997 would have been a million dollars each, enough then to buy a house and provide families that had been deliberately destroyed with some ongoing intergenerational security.”
“There is unfinished business in this country, and there can be no excuses for not knowing or understanding. We need to change direction and remove the burden from the most vulnerable.”
The article includes sound suggestions on how to achieve that last point.
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