>what i meant was that there is no overt programme of violence being
>sanctioned publicly by indigenous communities.
No, I wasn't suggesting this: what I am trying to get at is the
complexity of the problem. And that part of the complexity lies in the
difficulties we seem to have, as a nation, in addressing the complexities
of our history. I have sometimes wondered if it is because that history
is so brutal, that it seems that it can't be absorbed into the national
psyche without some kind of collective breakdown.
I don't know how many times I've heard John Howard say something like:
"We have to put it all behind us and look forward". What puzzles me is
how it is possible to look towards a future when we have such faulty
understandings of how we got to the present.
But of course, we're all relaxed and comfortable here...
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