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Mythology, Rewilding Forests and indigenous knowledge with Manchán Magan

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The Power of the Indigenous People

In November of this year there is going to be a vote, a referendum in Australia about the voice. Whether to give Aboriginal people the voice in Parliament for the first time. Ireland has an enormous role to play and must become aware of Aboriginal issues between now and autumn. The Irish Catholic Church did a lot of damage to Indigenous Australian people. They really did. And we were not only involved with massacres too. Let's say we came out as criminals, victims of Britain. But when we eventually were freed from prison, men would set up a homestead somewhere. If there were Aboriginals there, there were massacres that wiped them out and buried them in holes. There's a dark legacy

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