People who were there recalled the crowd’s reaction – view the full clip below. Part two is below. This website is in imminent danger of being shut down. Of how well we know the land we live in. In Australia’s public discourse since 1992, to switch pronouns and their entailments away from this frame of reference effectively signals a move away from discussing reconciliation as such. Australian Launch of the International Year for the World’s Indigenous People. Former Labor PMs say abandoning rise in guarantee to 12% would be ‘grand theft’ of Australians’ retirement savings. And with the spirit that is here today I am confident that we won’t. Redfern is an inner city suburb of Sydney with a large Aboriginal population.
And, as I say, the starting point might be to recognise that the problem starts with us non-Aboriginal Australians. William Francis Robinson took the series of 10 photos. We committed the murders.
Guilt is not a very constructive emotion.
There is no more basic test of how seriously we mean these things.
Isn’t it reasonable to say that if we can build a prosperous and remarkably harmonious multicultural society in Australia, surely we can find just solutions to the problems which beset the first Australians – the people to whom the most injustice has been done. The mural is now part of the City of Sydney’s civic collection and was on show in 2017 at Redfern Community Centre to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Redfern Speech. And it all goes back to history in this country.
The message should be that there is nothing to fear or to lose in the recognition of historical truth, or the extension of social justice, or the deepening of Australian social democracy to include indigenous Australians.
Imagine if our spiritual life was denied and ridiculed. There should be no mistake about this – our success in resolving these issues will have a significant bearing on our standing in the world.
It begins, I think with that act of recognition. Because, in truth, we cannot confidently say that we have succeeded as we would like to have succeeded if we have not managed to extend opportunity and care, dignity and hope to the indigenous pople of Australia – the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people. Watson’s essential counterclaim seems to be that he still is a writer — of books. That marks a significant contrast with his fluency, command, and sheer destructive glee as an improvising speaker – an aspect the recent Kerry O’Brien interview series brought out strongly. Perhaps when we recognise what we have in common we will see the things which must be done – the practical things.
Imagine if our feats on sporting fields had inspired admiration and patriotism and yet did nothing to diminish prejudice. Embedded content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1S4F1euzTw. As a consequence, we failed to see that what we were doing degraded all of us.
By doing away with the bizarre conceit that this continent had no owners prior to the settlement of Europeans, Mabo establishes a fundamental truth and lays the basis for justice. Paul Keating was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia. This is perhaps the point of this Year of the World’s Indigenous People: to bring the dispossessed out of the shadows, to recognise that they are part of us, and that we cannot give indigenous Australians up without giving up many of our own most deeply held values, much of our own identity – and our own humanity.
The mural on stage during Keating’s speech was created by Bundjalung artist Marlene Phillips especially for the event. It will be much easier to work from that basis than has ever been the case in the past.
And we can have justice.
It offers a fairly detailed historical background to this manuscript. Prefacing a published collection of transcripts that includes this speech, Watson set out a very minimalist ethics of speechwriting: There are no rules or guidelines, except the unwritten one: ownership resides in the speaker. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. The sentiments of the speech, that is, the core of its authority and authorship, were mine.
These non-verbal annotations show a speaker striving to interpret and make the most of his manuscript before delivery, but not so much to edit and alter it.
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