Reconciliation Week highlights how Indigenous injustice links to global fault lines
ABCWhat do coronavirus, the rise of authoritarianism and the retreat of democracy have to do with Indigenous reconciliation in Australia? The Uluru Statement from the Heart proposed a rejuvenated Australian identity where we "can walk in two worlds". Political leaders stoke a virulent nationalism by perpetuating narratives of grievance: Vladimir Putin laments the end of Soviet empire and accuses the West of humiliating Russia; Hungary's Viktor Orban sees outsiders as oppressors and pledges to never forget the post World War I Treaty of Trianon which stripped Hungary of territory, and China's Xi Jinping holds fast to what China calls the "one hundred years of humiliation" by foreign powers. We need a rejuvenated Australian identity The Uluru Statement offered a way through this impasse, proposing a rejuvenated Australian identity where we "can walk in two worlds" — black and white. Rather than see it as detracting from Australia — creating an "us and them" — we could have seen it as strengthening Australia bringing "us" closer "them", by meaningfully recognising First Nations people in our nation's founding document.
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