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We Took The Traditional Lands And Smashed The Traditional Way Of Life. We Brought The Diseases And The Alcohol. We Committed The Murders. We Took The Children From Their Mothers. We Practised Discrimination And Exclusion. It Was Our Ignorance And Our Prejudice. And Our Failure To Imagine That These Things Could Be Done To Us.

-Paul Keating

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We Took The Traditional Lands And Smashed

Paul Keating

We Took The Traditional Lands And Smashed The Traditional Way Of Life. We Brought The Diseases And The Alcohol. We Committed The Murders. We Took The Children From Their Mothers. We Practised Discrimination And Exclusion. It Was Our Ignorance And Our Prejudice. And Our Failure To Imagine That These Things Could Be Done To Us.

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