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

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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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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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I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.

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

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

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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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Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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