The alleged abduction and murder of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby from an Alice Springs town camp should have shattered one of the most poisonous illusions in Australian public life: that compassion consists of averting one’s eyes. For a few days the nation looked. There were vigils, flowers, condolences and the familiar chorus that tragedy must not be ‘politicised’. This is the standard incantation whenever politics has failed so complete…
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