May 31, 2023
Dear Editor,
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Ross Mueller (“Sounds like communism“, Geelong Advertiser, 1/6), Bev McArthur is right on the money regarding the so many more Judeo-Christian-based Western-society benefits of hospitals, etc. than ills brought to the Aborigines by the British, without denying any wrongs of the past!
And Ross, from the home of the modern-day, Western-democracy-birthing Magna Carta England, 16th-century-born Ben Jonson said it all:
“The present is the consequence of the past; and it is natural to enquire into the sources of the good we enjoy and the evils we suffer.”
Ross (and John Pessuto), why always look at only evils suffered? What of the good brought by the Christian missionaries and other Aborigine-supporting white fellas who ended Aboriginal cannibalism, documented in Manning Clark’s History of Australia, third volume, “The Beginning of an Australian Civilisation”?
What say you, Ross (and John)?
Yours,
Howard Hutchins
Victoria, Australia