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Just a beginning.(Editorial)
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Arena Magazine
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February 1, 2008
- Author:
- Caddick, Alison
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How has the Australian nation lurched from fairly widespread support amongst white Australians and the media for a militaristic intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory only months ago, to the serious, joyous occasion of Australia's Sorry Day in February 2008? Of course we have had an election, and the beginnings of a new agenda for black-white relations has been rapidly put in place. But is it true, as some commentators are saying, that the electorate has come a long way since November 2007?
Of course, for many Australians, black and white, the reconciliation agenda had never gone away. It had been bubbling along--all the while that John Howard ...