More “Cultural Genocide”? SIR: Stephanie Jarrett (“Aboriginal Liberation Through Integration”, April 2013) decries “The nation’s policies of encouraging separation, self-determination and cultural continuity”. In the face of the hysteria with which the “Stolen Generation” myth was rammed down our throats, why wouldn’t a nation accused of genocide recoil from any policy which might weaken any aspect of traditional culture? “Greater commitment is needed to bring about cultural changes”, Ms Jarrett tells us. No, Ms Jarrett. We have been there and done that and our purest motives have been grotesquely distorted to such an extent that we have been seriously accused…
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