Two Australias: One a Fantasy, the Other Gruesome Truth

Not only do the purveyors of imagined Aboriginal culture insult us while making us pay for favoured fantasies, their patronising advocacy for the 'world's oldest culture' helps to sustain barbaric initiations that still go on in places like West Arnhem Land. How proud must the urban sophisticates be to know their support locks fresh generations into lives of dependent hopelessness

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