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What do you do when the only records that remain of a language were made by someone who had absolutely horrendous views of the people who spoke it? In this episode, your host Lauren Gawne gets enthusiastic about a crossover episode with Claire Aubin of This Guy Sucked!
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They created a whole new legal illusion to allow white people to feel okay about occupying Australia. So they invented this thing called terra nullius, where they're like, there aren't people living here.
“she, like, went on about it all the time, which is not only unsubstantiated, but, like, seems pretty actively refuted by evidence at the time. Like, this is why I think Daisy Bates sucks specifically”
“The problem is that we have this incentive as academics trying to fund the work that we're doing of talking up the endangerment and how we never talk about what is endangering them.”
“we still take, like, a massive number of children out of their family context into, like, the foster home system every year. Like, that's still just perpetuating this kind of attitude towards Indigenous Australians.”
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