It should be extraordinary that when we were supposed to be confronting disadvantage we are instead perpetuating it. But actually, it makes perfect sense.
The 16-year-old boy, who had not been convicted, was found unresponsive in his cell. He had tried to kill himself. A week later, he died. WA’s Corruption and Crime Commission isThere are specific questions that need answering. But there are broader ones too: about the attitude that allows Indigenous people to keep dying in custody.
And so, yes, it should be extraordinary that when we were supposed to be confronting the disadvantage in our midst we were instead perpetuating it. But actually, it makes perfect sense because in the end, now that we know the result of the referendum, we can see these events are demonstrations of the same consistent attitude: a failure to listen..
Some final notes on the politics to come. A depressing aspect of past days has been the rush in some quarters to build on No: Tony Abbott’s, say, that we must respect the vote by abandoning or scaling back acknowledgements of country and the flying of the Indigenous flag. The exploitation of racism in different forms will come now too: as Niki Savva, around immigration. An interesting aspect of the Yes campaign was how many senior Liberals were involved.
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