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Australian Indigenous Societies: How traditional values inform the contemporary issues of Reconciliation and Native Title.

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Australian Indigenous Societies: How traditional values inform the contemporary issues of Reconciliation and Native Title. Dominic Feain 1/11/02 (*Par.11, p.4 contains reference to the deceased. I apologise for any offence this may cause.) At the beginning of the new millennium, there are two issues that best frame the interface of indigenous and non-indigenous Australia - reconciliation and native title. These issues have had a roller coaster ride through the front line of Australian culture and politics over the last decade and, I believe, reflect the current state of relations between indigenous and non indigenous Australians better than any other issues or rhetoric. Practically speaking, Australian Reconciliation represents the acknowledgement of past injustices suffered by Indigenous Australians at the hands of European invaders (colonisers, convicts and settlers), and the initiation of the healing process. Symbolically, it should represent a unified Australian future - a future free of the fears and phobias...

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