Some Australians claim the honor of being the “world’s greatest multicultural success story”. It makes us sound more like Trump using’ a hollow advertising slogan at best in the eyes of the rest of the world. The LNP has been saying it while hiding our indigenous past from the eyes of others. Gough Whitlam was right!

A few days after coming to power in 1972 Gough Whitlam declared that ‘Australia’s real test as far as the rest of the world is concerned is the role we create for our own Aborigines’. More than foreign aid programmes, more than any role the country plays in agreements or alliances, treatment of the Aborigines will be the thing upon which the rest of the world will judge Australia and Australians ‘not just now but in the greater perspective of history.’

Source: Australia’s real test – Pearls and Irritations