Have BBC/CNN visited the prisons & interviewed Aboriginal people in detention to tell their harrowing stories? Have int'l experts written books & reports on this? Has ASPI looked into this for signs of genocide? Have Western countries issued joint statements to condemn Australia? https://twitter.com/TracyWesterman/status/1379003233482403841

Have linguistics/minority experts studied the fate of indigenous languages and collected evidence of cultural heritage destruction in Australia today? Have human rights activists done copious studies of the work conditions of these people? Have legal experts monitored the

incarnation rates and the whereabouts of those detained? Have dedicated websites been set up to document and disseminate stories of victims of indigenous peoples? Have Foundations and NGOs sponsored talks by survivors in world tours and research projects by emerging

scholar-activists? Have celebrities and politicians created a campaign to 'Stand with Aboriginal peoples'? Have Twitter and Facebook fostered a sizeable army of outraged netizens who zoom in on every detail and keep those issues alive day in and day out? If all this is happening,

if the collective gaze can be fixed on the plight of those people for any sustained period of time, if this is regular topics of TV & radio interviews, investigative reports and documentaries, and if govt spin on the issues are not accepted at face value but revealed for

what it is, namely propaganda, then let's imagine how Oz might look like in the eyes of world public opinion. If we're looking pretty good now, it's probably because few of the above are happening as they should be. A clear-eyed & credible view of others starts with a clear-eyed

reflection on the self at home. Sure by all means look at the specks in others' eyes, but never be so self-righteous to be oblivious to the plank in your own. Otherwise it will present a highly distorted picture of self and other which serves no lasting foundation for the self

in dealing with others. Doubling down on self-righteousness can only go so far.