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Professor Patrick Dodson: So what now? Dialogue and nation building in contemporary Australia
The relationship between Indigenous people and the nation state is
framed by two opposing forces within the assimilationist approach: On
the one hand there is an aggressive polemic, often masquerading as
scholarship, which portrays traditional culture and the structures that
protect and support Aboriginal society as reasons for chronic
disadvantage and impediments to closing the gap. And on the other hand
there is the reality of contemporary Indigenous nations throughout
Australia whose peoples want liberation from material deprivation,
sickness and social disorder, but at the same time defend what is most
important to them: their culture and identity. We are a nation trapped
by our history and paralysed by our failure to imagine any relationship
with First Peoples other than assimilation, whatever its guise. It is
this political paralysis that has motivated a number of prominent
Australians – Black and white – to work together on a national dialogue
to search for a new form of inclusion around paramount Aboriginal values
and a pathway for honoured coexistence. It aims to stimulate a serious
conversation about modern Australia’s complexities rather than continue a
dysfunctional debate th at does not respond to the political and
economic challenges of our time.
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By Simon TrevaksThe relationship between Indigenous people and the nation state is
framed by two opposing forces within the assimilationist approach: On
the one hand there is an aggressive polemic, often masquerading as
scholarship, which portrays traditional culture and the structures that
protect and support Aboriginal society as reasons for chronic
disadvantage and impediments to closing the gap. And on the other hand
there is the reality of contemporary Indigenous nations throughout
Australia whose peoples want liberation from material deprivation,
sickness and social disorder, but at the same time defend what is most
important to them: their culture and identity. We are a nation trapped
by our history and paralysed by our failure to imagine any relationship
with First Peoples other than assimilation, whatever its guise. It is
this political paralysis that has motivated a number of prominent
Australians – Black and white – to work together on a national dialogue
to search for a new form of inclusion around paramount Aboriginal values
and a pathway for honoured coexistence. It aims to stimulate a serious
conversation about modern Australia’s complexities rather than continue a
dysfunctional debate th at does not respond to the political and
economic challenges of our time.
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