Restitution call puts Dr Adam in spotlight
Posted on September 9, 2009
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“The Revd Dr Peter Adam exchanged the lecture room for the uncomfortable glare of the media spotlight last month with his suggestions for restitution that ought to be made to indigenous Australians for the wrongs done to them since European settlement, especially that non-Aboriginal people should leave Australia if asked by the original Australians. …
Reaction to Dr Adam’s speech was swift and, in many prominent quarters, negative. Broadcaster Neil Mitchell on 3AW said it was a reason no one should step inside a church again…”
– Anglican Media Melbourne reports on reactions to Dr Peter Adam’s John Saunders Lecture, ‘Australia – whose land?’.
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