Tag: reconciliation

Practical Reconciliation and the Current Crisis in Indigenous Affairs

7 Jun 2016

What we are witnessing is the (re-)adoption of empty and often unwelcome symbolism as a cover for the failure of practical policies in Indigenous affairs. And this is a direct outcome of what was one of John Howard’s most significant interventions into Indigenous affairs: his bifurcation of the “symbolic” and “practical” aspects of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia, and the flow-on of this cleavage into Indigenous affairs policy-making more broadly.

Story-telling: Justice and recognition in the narratives of those who have suffered, by Kirsty Sangster

The justice process is tied to telling stories and to telling the truth. All around the world, victims of human-rights abuse are judged on their stories.

On Peter Sutton’s Pietism

Roland Boer traces the use of 'pietism and sacrimentalism’ in Peter Sutton’s writing on White Australia and Aborignal reconciliation.

On-Message, Turning a Blind Eye

Alison Caddick

In Terror and Hope

Guy Rundle

What Hope for Years to Come?

Geoff Sharp: In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the tension between religious piety and imperial power reveals the urgent need for re-examination of the new social forms

Return of the Repressed

Matthew Ryan: There's a New War on an Old Frontier and Indigenous Cultures are in the Firing Line