"And, as I say, the starting point might be to recognise that the problem starts
with us non-Aboriginal Australians.
It begins, I think, with that act of recognition.
Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing.
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life.
We brought the diseases. The alcohol.
We committed the murders.
We took the children from their mothers.
We practised discrimination and exclusion.
I’m not to sure how old you are ( 200 plus years? )
I know for a fact I was involved in none of the above.
