The Voice to Parliament speaks to politics. But there is also a deep ache of the soul. Surely any consideration of justice for Indigenous people begins with compassion for suffering, writes Stan Grant.
: a remembrance of God that inspires a divine sensitivity to suffering. Metz called into question our ability to see ourselves in each other. We may call it empathy but it demands more than that. It means that we transcend our cultural amnesia.
As a German, Metz had to confront this after the Holocaust, when he wondered: "Where was God? ... Where was humanity?"The "sword of forgetting" and the "shield of amnesia" deadens us to suffering and evil. As Metz wrote, "Yesterday, Auschwitz; today Bosnia and Rwanda; and tomorrow?" The Voice to Parliament speaks to politics. But there is also a deep ache of the soul. Surely any consideration of justice for Indigenous people begins with compassion for suffering.We are the most impoverished and imprisoned people in the country, and yet as the miserable reading of the Closing the Gap statistics reminds us, nothing changes. It is as though First Nations suffering is factored into Australia.
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