Eddie McGuire's controversial comments last week about using dual AFL Brownlow medallist Adam Goodes to promote the musical King Kong tap a long history of Australian racism. As white Australians we happily recall, like South Africa, Australia was established by colonists. We are happy to gloss over the fact that the Australian colonists were able through immigration and culling to establish white majority rule, with indigenous Australians excluded from a fair go by celebrating the 1967 amendment of our constitution to count Aboriginal natives and bring them into the Commonwealth. Twenty-five years later such limited constitutional change failed to help Robert Bropho, a Nyoongar leader, who...
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