Not listening?
When I got to the final sentences of Henry Reynolds’ pertinent explanation, I felt a chill similar to what I experienced hearing the advice offered by Eyre-Crowe (PA to the British Foreign Secretary) to his boss as the THIRTY-SEVEN DAYS rolled on to the outbreak of WWI. Crowe confided something like the following to Grey: “But Foreign Secretary, can we be sure Ambassador Prince Lichnowski is even being listened to in Berlin?”
It would be nice and reassuring to think that Richard Marles and Penny Wong would take note of this article by an eminent public intellectual who has been in the forefront of ascribing due public respect for international agreements to which Australia has long been bound by our Government’s signature. But are Government ministers capable of reconsidering their position in the light of such well-phrased advice?
To do so would mean an open admission that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party confused the Referendum by ignoring the fact that it was a proposal formed over a 10-year period that did ascribe due respect to Australia’s lawful international obligations. Thanks, Henry.
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