{"id":97216,"date":"2022-08-08T06:18:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T06:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=97216"},"modified":"2022-08-19T07:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T07:48:49","slug":"are-we-one-by-sean-perera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/are-we-one-by-sean-perera\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we one? By Sean Perera"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800000;\"><b>Are we one? <span style=\"color: #333399;\">By\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Sean Perera<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-97217 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Sean-Perera-150x150.png\" alt=\"Are we one? By\u00a0Sean Perera\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201cWe are one, but we are many. And from all the lands on earth we come. We&#8217;ll share a dream and sing with one voice,\u201d sang the recently deceased Judith Durham, in The Seekers\u2019 iconic pop hit \u201cI am Australian.&#8221; But what does it truly mean to be \u201cAustralian\u201d in the multicultural social landscape of this antipodean continent? In particular, what implications are there for immigrants to Australia, as they bear witness to an apartheid induced by \u201cwhite-guilt\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>From all the lands on earth we come\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">There is on one endemic to Australia. Everyone who is living in Australia today, and those who have lived previously, have migrated from other continents, even indigenous Australians. In their search for a new home 64,000\u00a0years ago, the ancestors of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples too would have left behind generations of family and friends, as they migrated eastward from Africa\u2019s Rift Valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">White settlers who arrived in Australia two-and-a-half centuries ago, also travelled to the antipodes of this planet in search for somewhere to call their new home. Hence the prolific presence of \u201cnew\u201d prefixing many place names where they settled down. The Australia-ward journeys of multitudes of immigrants since have been necessitated for a plethora of reasons. Yet all they all share the same dream: the search for a new home where they could find true belonging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Sing with one voice\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia\u2019s true multicultural milieu, however, is threatened by exclusive acknowledgment of First Nation Australian culture. Federal and State governments since the turn of the century have elevated and privileged the culture of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders above all other Australians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In 2011, in the wake of Prime Minister Rudd\u2019 National Apology, for instance, a too convenient marriage of politics with science celebrated a <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190302024602\/https:\/geogenetics.ku.dk\/latest-news\/alle_nyheder\/2016\/aboriginal-australia\/\">Danish genetic discovery<\/a>. It proclaimed that \u201cAboriginal Australians are the oldest living culture on the planet.\u201d The ancientness of First Australians\u2019 culture has since been etched deeply into Australia\u2019s multicultural social landscape though reinvention of ritual ceremonies, as well as academic scholarship, such as the copious \u201cThe Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Early this year, the <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/anu\/time-to-end-first-nations-economic-apartheid?e=9e127ef2d7&amp;fbclid=IwAR1GhJWra6AiS10WCFDiAJD5oQlSU7wHBLubhMdq7PM1EFrb9EFZW62g90g\">First Nations Portfolio<\/a> of Australia\u2019s peak research institution petitioned the Federal Government for a special economy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Portfolio advocates for an economic model outside conventional mainstream economy contributed by taxpayers and jobs. While it claims this would end the \u201ceconomic apartheid\u201d of First Nation Australians, it fails to see that such a model in itself apartheids immigrants who contribute to Australia\u2019s economy through jobs and paying tax.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Currently, Australia is on the eve of a national <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2022-07-31\/anthony-albanese-referendum-uplift-whole-nation\/101286038?fbclid=IwAR1X6j3XtL9UpEd2wGpqeQZyDCZc3A6f3QCw79oCxKKiCOorlibgaawtzgw\">referendum<\/a> &#8211; whether to change its constitution to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.\u00a0It is yet uncertain about the responsibilities and powers of this potential \u201cthird chamber\u201d in Parliament. But Australians can be certain that it will be an unequal voice for 3% of Australia\u2019s population. And it will certainly not be singing in the same one voice with the other two Houses of Parliament which represent all remaining Australians, including multicultural immigrants.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_97218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97218\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-97218 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Are-we-one_Image_Source-ABC-e1659939196570.webp\" alt=\"Are we one? By\u00a0Sean Perera\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Image Caption: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is the first PM since Malcolm Turnbull to attend Garma. (ABC News: Michael Franchi)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0Photo Source :\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/abc.net.au\/news\/2022-07-31\/anthony-albanese-referendum-uplift-whole-nation\/101286038?fbclid=IwAR1X6j3XtL9UpEd2wGpqeQZyDCZc3A6f3QCw79oCxKKiCOorlibgaawtzgw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abc.net<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>We are many, but are we one\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">As has been the case of most immigrants, including those of us from Sri Lanka, emigration from our home countries was necessitated for reasons which have their roots in European colonial rule. Many of us have had to flee adverse social, political, religious and economic events that mire our countries of origin. Australia\u2019s immigrants bear the scars of genocides, famines, persecution and other atrocities, yet they have made conscious efforts to move forward. They have sacrificed the past to history, from which to learn and inform their future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In contrast, modern Australian indigenous policy rhetoric is moving backwards. It aims to reinvent the past by recreating a history story that only recognises the struggles of a selected few. It disregards the hardships of the many others who have come to call Australia their home.\u00a0Selective acknowledgement of one culture is prejudicial and is a disservice to multiculturalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The cornerstone of true multiculturalism acknowledges equally each constituent which contributes to its makeup. It recognises equal belonging and offers equal opportunities for participation. True egalitarianism which Australia has prided itself will only find itself eroded by short-sighted glances at the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Therefore, the question that needs to be asked is \u201cwhy?\u201d \u2013 why is present day Australia looking back to reinvent its future identity? Is Australia\u2019s social consciousness moved by the errors of its past that it wants to truly reconcile the future. Or, is contemporary indigenous Australian policy ridden by white-guilt that aims to atone for the past?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It should not be forgotten that between the past and now, many more immigrants have found new belongings in Australia. They should also be part of Australia\u2019s acknowledged identity. They should not be forgotten. They should not become collateral offerings sacrificed by white-guilt in piecemeal attempts to appease the injustice to indigenous Australians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we one? By\u00a0Sean Perera \u201cWe are one, but we are many. And from all the lands on earth we come. 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