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11 June 2016

8:00 AM

11 June 2016

8:00 AM

Imagine if the Nova Peris ‘lived experience’ test was widely applied and allowed to determine who could and could not talk about Indigenous affairs. It would be impermissible for a non-Aboriginal person such as myself to question an Aboriginal person’s take on the causes and nature of Aboriginal disadvantage.

Fortunately, the rules of the identity politics game haven’t yet rotted the core principles of our public life.

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