Kevin Rudd // Turnbull no longer cares about reconciliation with Indigenous Australians | Kevin Rudd | Opinion | The Guardian

26.2.18

Turnbull no longer cares about reconciliation with Indigenous Australians | Kevin Rudd | Opinion | The Guardian: As a national polity, we have fallen victim, like much of the collective west, to the globalisation of superficiality. We savour the titillation of the moment. We have acquired the national attention span of a gnat. All while the mega-changes that are fundamentally impacting all our futures – from artificial intelligence, block chain, cyber, politically destructive levels of inequality, the rise and rise of China and irreparable climate change – are raging around us without any effective policy response.

One part of this broader picture is the absence of any effective debate about the collapsing bipartisanship in what we had once believed was a collective, national project of reconciliation with Indigenous Australians. This has been a half-century-long undertaking.