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Article Excerpt
An early Easter came even earlier this year in Australia. On 13 February a long 'winter' ended with the national Apology for the past crimes, mistakes and sufferings caused by settler society against Australia's Indigenous peoples. On that amazing day the continent's oldest peoples wept in public, in private, on camera, against each other's shoulders. City centres around the country had screens set up, as did many other places. People gathered in homes or wherever there was a television set.
Has any continent ever seen anything like it? Perhaps not since the guns fell silent in Europe on 11 November 1918. And, like 1918, we might all wonder why we had put ourselves through the denial and stupidity of the preceding era, and what, if anything, had...
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