This blueprint should begin, perhaps, with the establishing of the armed neutrality of Australia. We have lost too many sons and daughters to the war games their war lords play. An armed but neutral major power in the Southern Hemisphere must cause new thought, which will lead to new socioeconomic reform. New generations of non-violent, non-racist non-conformers will have the opportunity to uphold peace in the Southern Hemisphere. The dumping of war lords from other countries onto our shores, be they English, Japanese, South African, Chinese, German or any other, will turn the Australian multicultural dream of the nineties into the nightmare of the next century.

As I have previously stated, Australian history books assert that Aboriginal and Australian history began in 1770. Our children's textbooks still imply this nonsense. We are also urged to believe that our Aboriginal political existence began on 27 May 1967, with the referendum.

Australian archaeologists are just now beginning to discover what Aboriginal people have always known. We have been here for a very, very long time, and, furthermore, much to the disgust of some, have no intention of going away, even in the face of attempted genocide.

Our ancient history is locked in a cultural memory, which in turn is locked in the Alcheringa, or, as it has been re-named (incidentally, without our permission), the Dreamtime. Non-Aboriginal Australians will eventually receive this history, for it will be translated into forms that all can understand by the Aboriginal people themselves. This not only for our benefit, though we sorely need it, but also for the benefit of all races — this in spite of the fact that the present Constitution of Australia gives little to Aborigines in terms of cultural survival.

In the meantime, however, we must rely on our white friends to report our history from their perspective. Two educative books stand out in my mind — belatedly written, but of great importance. They should be used as textbooks at all levels of education from universities down. They are: The Law of the Land, by Henry Reynolds, and The Fatal Shore, by Robert Hughes.