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After the white-out: indigenous policy post-Howard.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-04 		Format: Online - approximately 882 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: After the white-out: indigenous policy post-Howard.(against the current)

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Someday soon the Howard era will end. Discussion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait issues will again be possible without cascades of furious denial and obfuscation from on high. The holiday from national responsibility will be over. I imagine the present as an Arctic white-out, or a blank stage where a single actor stumbles helplessly, unable to find footing or direction, muttering or shouting at Nature, like King Lear.

Howard has recycled our grandparents' dismissive platitudes into national 'policy'. He even says he won 'the debate' (Australian, 6/5/02). But no, he has merely silenced people when he enters a room. Their little smiles do not all signal approval.

Yet there are knowing winks amid denial. Federal and state governments are running pilot projects under their highest officials in a few Indigenous communities....

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