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And what might be the value of a specifically cultural approach to and within these conversations and debates? 32 Australian participation in it is slowly growing, with contributions by scholars such as Tony Barta, Colin Tatz and Dirk Moses. In public debate, the genocide question has been considered since the Human Rights Commission’s Bringing Them Home report of 1997, which investigated the history and effects of Aboriginal child removal in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, had argued that Australian child removal practices fell within the definition of genocide used in the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.
Some used code-words as a means of labelling their exchanges but this did not always help in keeping conversation on track. On 10 September 1858, for instance, a message appeared with the heading ‘Wicked One’. It read simply ‘how very unkind of you yesterday’. Next day there were three answers: Wicked One. – What am I to imply? Write to me the same as before, as I must not. Wicked One! Consider my age and feelings. Jemima. And: Wicked One! Meet me at half-past 4 To-day. There was nothing more until 29 September, when we read: ‘Dear Wicked One.
And there are other geopolitical considerations that take our reference points well beyond the British world. Consider, for example, what can be learnt by bringing Australian historiography into a conversation with that of Japan, at first, perhaps, an unlikely connection. Masayo Tada argues very effectively against those scholars who see looking outward as primarily a matter of considering the British world, and suggests a much broader frame of reference. Tada points out that both Australia and Japan have an ambivalent and marginal relation to ‘the West’, and both have imperial and colonising pasts that are now the subject of major public debate.