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"I remember during the bicentennial year of 1988 seeing the slogan 'White Australia has a Black History' spray-painted in large letters onto the concrete walls which surround the base of the new Australian Parliament building in Canberra.
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"I remember during the bicentennial year of 1988 seeing the slogan 'White Australia has a Black History' spray-painted in large letters onto the concrete walls which surround the base of the new Australian Parliament building in Canberra. It appealed to me greatly as one of the most effective protests by indigenous Australians during that flawed year of celebration, a year which most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, (and probably more European Australians than we might guess), viewed more accurately and appropriately as a year of loss and mourning, recognizing the terrible damage done to Australia's indigenous peoples by the historic act of European settlement". These words have been spoken at the Indigenous Research Ethics Conference, 27-29 September 1995 by John Thompson, a speaker during that conference. How true these words are, taking into account the long history of humiliation of the aboriginal Australians from the European colonists...
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