I am a person of Aboriginal descent, and I have a strong personal view on section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Apparently my ability to claim Aboriginality lends me a degree of legitimacy to air my views on this matter. Whether or not my views make much sense is immaterial; many Aboriginal commentators are consistently incoherent yet still make the newspapers.
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Kerryn Pholi is a former Aboriginal bureaucrat and social worker
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