In these two speeches, delivered on the same day in Canberra in 2014, prime minister Tony Abbott says our failure to care for Australia’s Indigenous people is a ‘stain on our soul,’ and finds that much of the laconic Australian character can be attributed to Indigenous humour and stoicism.
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