Letter to the Editor
The impact of colonisation: A couple of not so minor points
1. The author says: “… the taking of [Aboriginal] children from their parents by governments [continued] into the 1970s.]”
If only that were true. It continues to this day.
2. Jacinta Price (for so she called herself when she sent me a text during the referendum) proves that every group has fools in its midst.
How she can think British colonisation “has had no lasting negative effects.” is beyond me. I’d have thought the numbers of Indigenous children in out of home care and jail and having a shorter life expectancy than their non-Indigenous counterparts might have been worth noting.
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