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Let Charles do the Recognising

Rather than a phony, legalistic preamble, let the Australian monarch recognise who was here first

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

While campaigning for the ‘No’ vote in the 1999 republican referendum, monarchists found themselves received most warmly in regional Australia, and Indigenous communities were no exception. According to leading ‘99 ‘No’-ers, rural Aboriginals didn’t see the Crown as the bejewelled head of an imperial machine that dispossessed them centuries prior, in striking contrast to their self-appointed spokespeople and agitators living in Sydney and Melbourne.

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