Age readers respond to the conflict in Gaza and the referendum fallout.
When I arrived in Australia, nearly 50 years ago, as a young Dutch migrant, I was horrified by the racist attitudes towards me. I was constantly referred to as a “Dutchie” in my first and consecutive jobs .
The worst and most revealing comment must have been from a family member to my husband ,who said, ″She is actually a nice mother.“This land was whose? How did educated, intelligent people with huge followings, activists and academics alike, who claim to be supporters of human rights, especially the rights of women and children, decide to respond to the worst day for Jewish women and children since the Holocaust with varying versions of ″it’s terrible but…?″ I ask, Have people lost their minds?, 20/10) indicates that, among other things, the failure of the referendum was partly because the application of such a Voice was “exclusive to a...
This argument falsely equates and conflates the notions of Indigenous ″heritage″, with racial and ethnic ″heritage″ since colonisation. Before 1788, 100 per cent of Australian inhabitants were Indigenous. Since then the distinction between indigeneity, race and ethnicity has become increasingly blurred, compounded by ignorance, and denial.
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