I sometimes think that if we did not have Aboriginals in Australia, we would have had to invent them. They have taken on such totemic significance that no issue can be discussed and no aspect of national progress examined without adding that, of course, there is an Aboriginal perspective, the Aboriginals are opposed to this project, or this other development is on ancient Aboriginal ground and of course it must be stopped.
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