This issue of the Review focuses on welfare reform. The Editor explains why. Building trust across racial lines can't be legislated for or imposed from above.
Genuine reconciliation rests on personal relationships in civil society.
Even to question the politically correct position on indigenous matters is to invite the charge of 'racism'. But failure to pursue the truth is bad for Australian politics and for indigenous people. The weird, the wacky and the wonderful from around the world. Despite policies to improve economic efficiency and better target welfare, the welfare state continues to expand. But it can't do so for ever.