Ten long years
Posted on | May 30, 2005 |
I take it all back Michael Jeffrey. You are capable of saying some important things. Now if you could please just stop using that insulting tautology, ‘practical reconciliation’, we might be getting somewhere.
This week my students are writing their final essays. There have four questions to choose from but the most popular so far seems to be the discourse analysis option. They are asked to analyse two media representations of “Australia” and in the 10th anniversary of Reconciliation Week they’ve got plenty of examples to choose from. You only have to look at these two very different editorials to see that none of us live with the same idea of what this country does or could mean. And very few of us know what it still means to those who were here first.
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