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Richard Flanagan Quotes

Australian - Novelist | 1961 -

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

Richard Flanagan

Secret Suffrage Universal Other Many

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.

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Political Tragedy Sydney Refugees

Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.

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Great Numbers Refugees Without Taken

For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the 'fair go.'

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Good Country Go Australia Land Fair

In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.

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Die Late Race Out Theory Accepted

In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.

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Children Government Labor Inquiry

John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he referred to as 'a black armband version' of history, preferring a jingoistic nationalism.

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Home History Sorry Black Nationalism

I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of being taken away.

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Fear Time Me Hide Used Being

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

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Together Identity Mysterious Bound

Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.

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Culture Youth World You Television

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

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Scholarship Study University 1980s

Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.

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Truth Mind Late Nothing More Social

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