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A call for a radical restructuring of the relationship between black and white Australia.

Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Non-Indigenous People and the Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation -- Abstract -- Thinking Reconciliation in a Settler Colonial Society -- Visibility, Invisibility, and Relations of Reconciliation -- The Limits of Settler Colonial Policy -- Arrangement -- References -- Conceptualising the Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation -- 2 Beyond Colonial Completion: Arendt, Settler Colonialism and the End of Politics -- Abstract -- The Settler Drive to Colonial Completion -- Settler Politics and Its Occupation of the Middle Ground

'An excellent diagnosis of Australia's mind-set.' - Jeff McMullen journalist, author, film maker Deep in our hearts, all Australians know that white Australia was established on land which did not belong to us. Some of us assert that Aboriginal people should simply take advantage of opportunities offered by white society

Reconciliation and conflict transformation require simultaneous effort across several socio-political levels. This article advances both a conceptual and an empirical argument to frame reconciliation and conflict transformation in these terms. First, the article draws on theories of agonistic democracy to argue for the intrinsic and potentially productive role of non-violent conflict in reconciliation efforts that accept conflict as both enduring and necessary. Second, the article contends that reconciliation is a multi-level task that requires ongoing attention and effort directed towards constitution building, institutional reform and relational transformation. The article concludes that, once conflict transformation is understood in these terms, reconciliation must be seen as a far more difficult and long-term endeavour than is usually acknowledged, requiring innovative political institutions capable of keeping open spaces for democratic political contestation.