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70: Child Labour & Liberal Childishness

Serious Danger

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The Error of Treating Aboriginal People as if They Need Help

The real error is what she's saying, the real error was acknowledging that we had failed to treat Aboriginal people as though they had the same fundamental needs and aspirations and flaws as everybody else. And yet that exceptionalist approach is exactly what Albanese's voice model would entrench - a near-permanent, inflexible, and judicially, judicially enforceable mechanism for keeping Aboriginal people separated from wider Australian society. To lock in policies that have done and continue to do great harm to the most vulnerable people in Aboriginal communities would be disaster.

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