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QMNWhat are the implications of the Bicentennial year to the Aboriginalmovement and to yourself?Well, to a certain extent, some Aboriginal people, especially Kevin Gilbert,are seeing it as a possible last chance for Aboriginals to get justice, that whatAboriginal people should have is a treaty negotiated between the Aboriginalpeople and white people, as collective wholes, and we don't want this debatebetween Labor and Liberal politicians - about what Aboriginal people want,and what they can have and what they can't have - which we have seenall along. We want negotiations between Aboriginal people and white people,and this should take place in 1988. Secondly, as for my point of view on theBicentennial, I see it just as, sort of, celebrating not only the wholesale genocideof Aboriginal people, which happened over the last two hundred years, butalso celebrating the arrival of rather a nasty system.Magabala'slatest title -The book that could changeAustralian consciousness -nine lives - and they needed them!"This is a story which needs to be told, it is an opportunity for city dwellersto understand the bloody and violent process of colonisation and to seethe Aboriginal view of Government policy. The book tells the truth of thedestructiveness of colonisation hidden for so long from our community."WA's Premier - Mr DowdingAvailable now in all retail outlets. R.R.P. $29.95WESTERLY, No.2, JUNE, 1989 89