Hilary McPhee

“Thirty years ago, on 10th December 1993, Prime Minister Paul Keating, gave a speech in Redfern Park to a noisy crowd who were only half-listening.

‘It was we who brought the diseases and the alcohol. It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We who committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practiced discrimination and exclusion’ …”