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'Mention Palm Island to many Australians and they will conjure images of tropical resorts in the Caribbean, the Grenadines or Dubai. Most non-Indigenous Australians know little of Palm’s history as a penal settlement for Aboriginal people, established by the Queensland Government a century ago. Some may vaguely recall television images from 2004 of smoke billowing from the roof of the police station on an island in North Queensland; others the shock headlines ‘Tropic of Despair’, ‘Paradise Lost’ or ‘Queensland hell hole’ that thrust Australia’s... ' (Introduction)

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  • Epigraph:

    Where Aboriginal people are concerned, the twin strands of dysfunction
    and idealisation weave a highly coloured thread through the fabric of
    Australian culture. The strand that remains all but invisible is that of
    ordinary Aboriginal lives, the preoccupations and pleasures that amidst
    all the furore and sentiment remain robust and sustaining.

    Kim Mahood, ‘Listening is harder than you think’,
    Griffith Review 19: Re-imagining Australia

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    y separately published work icon Griffith Review First Things First no. 60 2018 12265671 2018 periodical issue

    'INSPIRED by the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and featuring outstanding Indigenous writers, Renewed Promise is an urgent, nuanced and robust call to listen, hear and respond to questions of constitutional recognition.

    'More than two centuries after European settlers arrived, the need to find an honourable way to recognise and celebrate the unique history of this country as home to the oldest living civilisation is long overdue. A Makaratta Commission is the preferred way to do this, to make agreements and enable truth-telling about our history.

    'Are we ready to make peace and devise firmer ground for laws, policies and outcomes that improve Indigenous and non-Indigenous life in Australia? With this special edition, Griffith Review excavates history and re-imagines the future, while not forgetting the urgencies of the present.

    'Published with the support of QUT' (Publicaton summary)

         2018     pg. 220-233
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  • Palm Island, Ingham area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland,
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