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Facing the past, forging the future: the spirit of reconciliation
UniSC News, Vol.26 May 2025
University of the Sunshine Coast
2025
Abstract
We are a cobbled-together nation, with migrants and their descendants sharing these ancient lands and water with the custodians who had cared for them for millennia – the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
It has been almost 240 years since the First Fleet forced our geographical cohabitation, but there are still deep divisions to breach and understandings to acquire.
Sometimes, for everyday people, the divide and the differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians feel insurmountable.
But uncomfortable as it might be, come alongside each other we must: it is unimaginable that our progress is stunted because we have become used to rancour and discomfort.
Details
- Title
- Facing the past, forging the future: the spirit of reconciliation
- Authors
- Jane Stephens - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Healthy Ageing Research Cluster
- Publication details
- UniSC News, Vol.26 May 2025
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date published
- 2025
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Healthy Ageing Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991128902002621
- Output Type
- Blog
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