TY  - GEN
AU  - THOMPSON, JANNA
Y2  - 2014/05/22
Y1  - 2003/04
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/33773
AB  - This paper will concentrate primarily on 'reconciliation' – its adequacy, meaning and requirements. However, the possibility of reconciliation as acknowledgment and recompense for past wrongs depends on an idea of collective responsibility which encompasses responsibility for historical injustices. I will use the debate about apology to explain why citizens have a responsibility for making recompense for historical injustices committed by past officials of their nation. This explanation suggests a particular approach to dealing with these past injustices and a view about what reconciliation should accomplish, and I will relate this approach to the debate about Aboriginal land claims. Finally, I will consider some of the problems that arise when people are asked to comprehend injustices that do not fit common conceptions of harm. The debate about removal of children involves a conceptual difficulty of this kind
N1  - application/pdf
LA  - eng
KW  - Reconciliation
KW  - land rights
KW  - Aborigines
KW  - Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
KW  - removal of children
KW  - culture
KW  - land claims
KW  - apology
T1  - From slaughter to abduction: coming to terms with the past in Australia
L1  - /bitstream/handle/11343/33773/65976_00000409_01_Thompson5.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
ER  -