reconciliation

In the years that have passed, there have been other firsts and many other gestures in a bid to promote reconciliation and good relations.

In the years that have passed, there have been made other firsts and many other gestures in a bid to promote reconciliation.

Republican leaders in Congress have said that this time, if they retake majorities in both chambers, they’ll use their reconciliation bills to combine renewed tax cuts with aggressive cuts to social spending.

Nova Peris, a former senator who was the first Aboriginal woman in parliament, described it as an “embarrassing” move which didn’t “reflect the manners, or approach to reconciliation, of Aboriginal Australians at large”.

But, as so often is the case, it was the unexpected moment that highlighted the tensions that still simmer here between modern Australia and its reconciliation with its past.