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* Until about 1908, Aboriginal children at schools worked successfully with the standard curriculum. Between 1908 and about 1950, schools offered a 'culturally-adapted',i.e. colonialist, curriculum, and Aboriginal children were usually unable to complete even primary school. It has taken two or three generations to overcome this huge mistake;

* Indigenous people became citizens, along with all other Australians, in 1948;

* All Indigenous people have had the vote since about 1962;

* Indigenous people were counted annually in State Reports, with an estimate made (wildly greater than in reality) for those thought to remain 'beyond civilization'; and in the National Census from 1971;

* Indigenous people have been entitled to all benefits available to other Australians since the seventies.

Of course, there must be other planks to this Narrative. Completing that Narrative, on the basis of truth and evidence, will help to complete the process of Reconciliation, which is surely vital for any nation's future, based on justice and equality.

So what else should be included ?

Joe