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The roaring ‘silence’

2 September 2017

9:00 AM

2 September 2017

9:00 AM

The notion of a ‘Great Australian Silence’ about Australian history and the treatment of indigenous people might have been accurate when anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner coined the phrase in the 1960s. But in no way does it ring true with regards to current attitudes to indigenous issues and awareness of the realities of our history.

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