トームさんのインスタグラム写真 - (トームInstagram)「#AustraliaDay is an annual reminder of the theft of a nation. As it is, it can never unite us ( Richard Flanagan @guardian ) A national day’s purpose is to unite. We cannot be one until we acknowledge both the horrors and glory of our Indigenous past. . .The date of 26 January has always been known by our leaders to be an insulting nonsense to Indigenous people. When in 1888, NSW celebrated a centenary of British colonisation, Henry Parkes, on being asked if Aboriginal people would be included, replied: “And remind them that we have robbed them?” But still our leaders choose to remind them. Australia Day as it is cannot unite us because it annually tears the great wound of our soul apart by reminding Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians that we can never be one until we acknowledge our Indigenous past – and that means the invasion and its attendant horrors and continuing injustice as well as its glory: what Galarrwuy Yunupingu rightly described as “the great gift” of 60,000 years of an extraordinary civilisation. And thinking about these things, what keeps rolling around in my head are Archie Roach’s words from a story in the Age about the national anthem’s inadequacies: “We belong to an ancient land, we belong to an ancient story … that’s not just talking about First Peoples. I believe that everybody who lives in this country, whether they understand it or not, they belong to that story. . “I always talk about us being authors; all of us being authors of a new story for this country. And I really believe that. One story, one song. If anything, that’s probably the best [hook]. We belong. We belong to this country, we belong to this story, we belong to this song. Yeah.” But how can we be authors of our own story when only the politicians and their class define what our story is and deny everyone else their voice, and above all Indigenous Australia the voice it has asked for? Because Archie’s song is really the song. The only song. And we all belong to it. Beautiful Archie. Soul man, soul brother, soul father to the nation waiting to be born. . https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jan/25/australia-day-is-an-annual-reminder-of-the-theft-of」1月26日 5時02分