Settler colonial progressives: Dan Tout, ‘Settler Nationalism and Progressive Discourse’, Arena Quarterly, 15, 2023 | settler colonial studies blog

Settler colonial progressives: Dan Tout, ‘Settler Nationalism and Progressive Discourse’, Arena Quarterly, 15, 2023

29Sep23

Excerpt: Despite stalled progress towards a ‘renovated idea of Australia’, for Schultz it remains the case that if the nation is to transform from half- to fully formed, the foundational ‘wound’ of settler colonisation will need ‘to be healed’. Thankfully, Schultz argues, renewed ‘inspiration for this journey … and indeed the model methodology of how we might embark upon it, comes from an unlikely source: the people who even three score years and ten ago were still routinely and unemotionally treated as vermin, described as a dying race’. Schultz is, of course, referring to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which she insists will, ‘sooner or later, fundamentally reshape the idea of Australia’.

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