Should We Reconsider the Narrative of Colonialism?

Commentary
“It is the simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.”
That wise and rich insight was uttered by Australia’s most successful prime minister, Sir Robert Menzies.
Its acceptance, adoption, and application to Australia’s Indigenous policy discussion today would make a profound difference.
This one sentence of Menzies neatly summarises the issues at stake in Australia’s referendum to be held on Oct. 14 to determine whether the Constitution has another chapter added to it providing recognition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the first inhabitants of Australia and providing them with the so-called Voice to the Parliament and Executive….



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