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Johnny come lately to reconciliation
After 11 years of being the lead opponent of indigenous reconciliation, a Prime Minister who is desperate in the face of the a reputation-destroying defeat is trying to paint himself as the champion of the indigenous community. How gullible does he think voters are?
A few years ago he claimed to have discovered that there really might be something to global warming after all. Yet his actions since then have been entirely inconsistent with this belief. He claims that he wants to do something about global warming, but has dragged his feet at every opportunity.
There is no reason to believe that the Prime Minister's newfound understanding of indigenous people will amount to anything other than lip-service in order to get elected, after which he will dismiss all approaches that might actually change something, and offer up his own "solutions" that are designed to do nothing at all.
We have seen it all before from this tricky politician - a repeated pattern like this of politically convenient, staged "changes of view" deserves nothing but our scorn.