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Strehlow and the Aborigines.(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: I find it difficult to understand why many of those who write about the life of Professor T.G.H. Strehlow prefer to concentrate on what they refer to as the negative aspects of his life instead of the common sense he put forward regarding the treatment of Aborigines in this country.
We are told in the article by Gary Clark (April 2003) that Strehlow was "the complex, brilliant but flawed linguist". I wonder how many of us, including academics, are not "flawed". None of us is perfect, and to use the personal diaries of a man to point out his "flaws" seems to me a little unfair. Then, I am not an academic, and rely on the common sense of the efforts of people like Strehlow to put right policies which, until the present day, have done little to solve the problems which the Aboriginal community faces.
If Strehlow gave some the appearance of melancholy in his writings, he had plenty of reasons for being so. His experience as a boy of fourteen when he travelled from Hermannsburg to Horseshoe Bend with his dying father must have affected his whole life.
To see what he saw of the failure of the Aboriginal community to retain its culture, and the failure of governments to ...
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