First reconciliation, then a republic - starting with changing the date of Australia Day
I have always been rather taken with Gary Larsons Far Side cartoon which depicts a man getting out of bed in the morning, reading a very large poster on his wall that says: First pants, then your shoes. This stating of an obvious but critical ordering of events has salience for the debate over wheth...
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ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:130756 2023-05-15T16:16:17+02:00 First reconciliation, then a republic - starting with changing the date of Australia Day Walter, M 2018 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/130756 en eng Melbourne University Press Walter, M, First reconciliation, then a republic - starting with changing the date of Australia Day, The Converstion Yearbook 2018, 220-223, (2018) pp. 220-223. (2018) [Refereed Article] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/130756 Studies in Human Society Political Science Political Theory and Political Philosophy Refereed Article PeerReviewed 2018 ftunivtasecite 2019-12-13T22:28:48Z I have always been rather taken with Gary Larsons Far Side cartoon which depicts a man getting out of bed in the morning, reading a very large poster on his wall that says: First pants, then your shoes. This stating of an obvious but critical ordering of events has salience for the debate over whether Australia should become a republic. Reconciliation between the Settler and First Nations populations is a self-evident prerequisite for Australia cutting the ties of colonial dependency with Britain to stand on our own. If we cant work out that we need to complete the peacemaking between Indigenous Australians the sole occupiers of the Australian continent for upwards of 60,000 years and those whose ancestors arrived at or post-1788, we are not ready to be a republic. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) |
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I have always been rather taken with Gary Larsons Far Side cartoon which depicts a man getting out of bed in the morning, reading a very large poster on his wall that says: First pants, then your shoes. This stating of an obvious but critical ordering of events has salience for the debate over whether Australia should become a republic. Reconciliation between the Settler and First Nations populations is a self-evident prerequisite for Australia cutting the ties of colonial dependency with Britain to stand on our own. If we cant work out that we need to complete the peacemaking between Indigenous Australians the sole occupiers of the Australian continent for upwards of 60,000 years and those whose ancestors arrived at or post-1788, we are not ready to be a republic. |
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