Guardian Australia’s Indigenous affairs editor,Stan Grant, speaks at the National Press Club to launch his new book, and Talking to My Country. The journalist and Wiradjuri man recounts the controversy over the booing of Sydney Swans player Adam Goodes,which he says ‘was approximately out shared history and our failure to reconcile’. Grant speaks of a ‘deep wound’ that ‘comes from a time of dispossession’, saying it is at the heart of Indigenous Australians low life expectancy, and tall levels of incarceration and tall risk of suicideContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com