So what happens next, sports fans, fellow Australian citizens? Now that Israel is starting to run out of Palestinian children and women to kill, hospitals to smash, and people to starve.

All the while aided and abetted by countries like ours, which have supplied them with weapons and fighter jet spare parts, and quelled the unrest and opposition at home.

Supported, as always, by corporate media’s dutiful parroting of what the Israeli and US Governments want to hear about the unprovoked aggression and evilness (etc.) of the Palestinians and the divine right of Israel to do more or less as it pleases in "self-defence" and for the greater good.

As a US supplicant, Australia has clearly done its bit to keep this US/Israeli show on the road.

How can this be compatible, you might wonder, with the image of the good global citizen that we like to project? Is there any chance that we will come to our senses, admit our wrongdoing and accept accountability? And, if we do, what recompense might we offer to those we have wronged?

Or will we simply discard our blood-spattered clothes, take a shower, and act as if nothing untoward had happened?

In the spirit of our supposedly “fair-go” society, let’s be charitable, let’s suppose that these are not rhetorical questions, and consider what insights some snapshots of our post-invasion history might provide.

Terra Nullius

In the 140 years following the colonisation of Australia, there were

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