Noel has taken a stance which is so commendable. I guess
as a social worker I would feel the need to have an aboriginal social system in
place.
Recently in our lecture we have been spending a great deal of
time talking abvout activism and how to do that.
Our concepts of change are as happened in the sixties and
seventies only through conflict that change will occur. However conflict does
not need to have violence in order for it to occur or aggression. If we
want quick dynamic change perhaps that may be so. But what if
society changed from the ground up ie education within the understanding of
knowledge, the first people developing for themselves an education program
which would be used in all school across the nation of Australia and giving
everyone in Australia a right to learn about a culture that is rich and
resourceful and the longest living known to man. The legends such as those that
appear on SBS occasionally. The stories of spiritualism the ability for the
first people as teh american indians have done to adopt peoples or invite people
into their unique culture.
I would rather find comfort in knowing I am talking to
the survivors of an invaded nation of people rather than the VICTIMS.
(PS Hope Im making sense please tell me if Im not)
Regards
Lance
