Australian Aboriginal peoples are experiencing a second wave of dispossession, and given the bloody carnage required to drive them from paradise into this civilised machine, they are now point-blank faced with the likelihood of becoming perpetrators in the cycle of violence not of their making.
Never mind the Australians who sleep rough and are destitute who can attest to the criminality of this ‘civilised’ state of things, so can the destitute and working poor of the entire globe. The 1967 referendum is just a piece of paper and Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are still at the very bottom on every level of what it is required to have a decent life.
Their lands were stolen with violence. They were ‘owned’ in a way the class framework cannot possibly cognise, and has no way out of, without their help in every way their talents can be leveraged.
The reason we speak of ‘closing the gap’ is like a pool table, they got buried behind the 8 ball when they were sunk and this ‘civilisation’ crystallised on top of it. It is not a level playing field until the table is put back on an even keel.
Descendants of my British ancestors had an indirect role in the initial ‘terra nullius’ which explains land ownership. Aboriginal peoples of Australia ‘are still thieves’ and ‘liars’ when they seek a means through constitutional recognition to enact a reconciliation for the heart of the nation through the Uluru Statement of the Heart which begins with the Voice.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
