I live in a country that has a hard time admitting they were wrong for raping and pillaging the native people, and here's Australia with a not-so-different history celebrating it's indigenous peoples.
They paint their planes up in designs specific to their people, and they are indeed uniquely Australian. I admire that on a few levels. It says - "We have a great native people, and we're proud of them." What other country that has a questionable history does this ? Umm.. None.
Australia deserves recognition. Not for the way they treated the aboriginal peoples, but for how they acknowledge today that their culture is richer for these people, and the native Australians are an intrinsic part of Australia's future as well. We could all learn from this.
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