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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

To the editor: Stefaniak’s rosy view of Australia Day

Bill Stefaniak’s laughable white-washing of the complex relationship between Australia Day and Australia’s Indigenous people (CW, 20 Jan) is unworthy of your readers. His easy lauding Aboriginal heroes is a laughably inadequate response to the issue.

Australia can rightly celebrate many achievements – notably having become a pluralist, multi-cultural democracy. But surely no one could reasonably think that the historical injustices that Indigenous Australians suffered – and the consequences they continue to suffer – can justify Stefaniak’s ‘Oi, oi, oi!’ Please give us columnists who can face the complex and often uncomfortable realities of our past and present, not simplistic pap.

  • Prof. P Stanley, Dickson ACT 2602

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