All of a sudden you could see the destination in sight. The reason I say that is that there are basically four issues for grievance that divide indigenous and non-indigenous people here today. They centre firstly on the troubling business of trying to come to terms with history and the fact that that history still lives amongst us and it will never depart from us. So it poses huge challenges for Aboriginal people to come to terms with the past, to not wallow in the past, to rise above the past, and all of the disadvantages and all of the baggage that the past represents for Aboriginal people. So, huge challenges for Aboriginal people.
Forgiveness is a big challenge for Aboriginal people.
It is a pretty simple thing to say there are truths about the past. We can feel some pride as we urge young people to feel pride about Kokoda and Gallipoli, and the other side of that coin is perhaps some regret and shame about some aspects of our past. The court said the white fellas have this. It can't be taken away from them. But this here does not belong to the white people at the moment.