We Don’t Need a Map

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Late in Warwick Thornton’s We Don’t Need A Map, Professor Ghassan Hage of the University of Melbourne is talking about stolen land. It’s to be expected in a documentary addressing white Australia’s entrenched ignorance of indigenous issues, ideas and history but Hage isn’t making a point about ignorance, rather one centred on a knowledge that runs to the heart of Australian colonialist identity. Fear of boats and refugees mask a collective psychological panic: our land will be taken from us....

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Published on June 10, 2017 18:05
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