Action after the apology
13/5/08
Whether the wrongs done to the Stolen Generations sometimes counted as genocide is obviously not a question to which we must urgently seek an answer. Your editorial (10-11/5) is right that far. The same could be said, however, about many questions whose answers will be part of a truthful account of Australia’s history. Indeed, it could be said of most of the questions raised in magazines and journals devoted to reflective discussion of the kind to which The Australian Literary Review now contributes with distinction. Any group of Australian citizens that suffered, as many Aborigines now do, would be owed the urgent attention of an Australian government because that is what governments owe to all their citizens.
See: http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/letters/index.php/ theaustralian/comments/action_after_the_apology/
Sorry, but it’s no time for minds to slam shut; The Holocaust is rightly the paradigm of genocide, yet it is a misleading; Riamond Gaita;7/5/08; http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23620246-25132,00.html
Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Genocide