Submitted by Paul Daley on
The University of Melbourne and the South Australian Museum are taking starkly different approaches to addressing their toxic histories
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This is the tale of two colonial Australian institutions, both with deeply racist histories and instilled from inception with notions of white supremacy that led them to abuse and treat Aboriginal people as collection specimens.
The way each has responded to their individual pasts are, without doubt, examples to other colonial institutions the world over that have their roots in violence against – and dispossession of – First Nations peoples.
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