...of December 1992, accepting responsibility for the historic actions of white settlers in Australia: 'We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We committed the murders. It was our ignorance and prejudice and failure to imagine these things done...

...Year of the World's Indigenous People. In a rare Prime Ministerial display, Keating acknowledged that: We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional...mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice.104 Aside from this, the closest thing there has been to a state-endorsed...

...begins, I think, with that act of recognition. Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional...mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us (Keating...

...begins, I think, with that act of recognition. Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional...mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice [. . .]8 Such language surely implies that the present generation...

...assuages historical guilt. Heirs of oppressors eagerly admit ancestral cruelty, greed, and genocide. "We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers," lamented Australian...

...begins, I think, with that act of recognition. Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional...mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. ... we non-indigenous Australians should try to imagine the Aboriginal view.8 Keating's speech stressed...

...who had too often heard such pieties interjected their scepticism. Then came the frank recognition - 'We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional...the murders. We took the children from their mothers . . .' - and the dissident voices fell away, replaced by growing applause as the litany continued....

...begins, I think, with that act of recognition. Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional...diseases. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We look the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. ... we non-indigenous...

...to whom the most injustice has been done ... Recognising that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional...brought the diseases. The alcohol. We committed the murders.24 Keating's statement was candid. In simple terms he said what no other political leader in...

...begins, I think, with that act of recognition. Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional...mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us" (Keating...