Response To John Keating's Reconciliation

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Keating begins discussing the factor of the significance of the whole of reconciliation the year coming. Keating goes on to discuss the appropriate interpretation that reconciliation hasn’t always been fulfilled. Keating then quotes “It comes a time when we have committed ourselves to succeeding in the test which so far we have always failed”. The statement Keating is trying to make is that Australians glorify reconciliation, but never really go through with it. Reconciliation with the indigenous is talked about constantly and non-indigenous Australians are all about it, but no action is ever made; the injustice is still there. Additionally, Keating adds in the cold hard truth within the injustice, that the “opportunity, care, dignity and hope” …show more content…

The “how well” repetition adds the concept that non-indigenous Australians have been so secluded to themselves that they in reality don’t know anything. Keating goes on to include the repetition relating to the knowledge of the land, the history of the land and as much as we can change everything in relation to the land, it will never be seperate from Aboriginal Australia. These factors reinforce that there were thousands upon thousands of original and traditional places, people, food way before the English settled into the notorious …show more content…

For 50% of the text Keating, discusses the painful consequences that non-indigenous Australians have caused through their actions. That lives have been ruined and completely traumatic since early days, destroying innocent individuals especially the children that had to grow up in the remaining years, if they had any left. The pain felt by the traditional Australians is imaginable and goes untold to the non-indigenous because they would never have to through it, they are too first world to know what their ancestors actions could do to people. The sorrow continues on as a result of the indigenous still not getting any recognition at all. At the current time people are still not doing anything to help the injustice. Keating then goes on to encourage hope for the future, which is his main point when speaking at that date. His goal was to discuss how pure and easy recognition could be, that there will be nothing comprised; that the economy within Australia could be peaceful and

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