Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Mission -- Beginnings -- Forebears -- Family -- Old Man Urwunhthin -- Yumurr Charlotte Burns -- Towards respecting equality and difference -- Invaluable lessons -- After Mabo -- After Mabo -- For all of us (but not for them) -- The Coalition government, Mabo and Wik -- A mighty moral victory -- Boom and dust lifestyle -- 'Let them eat feral cat' -- Opportunity lost? -- Juukan Gorge -- Passivity and Progress -- Peoples of the north: Anthropology and tradition -- Hope Vale lost -- Our right to take responsibility -- On the human right to misery, mass incarceration and early death -- Land rights and progressive wrongs -- The Aborigines have too much -- The fattest hand -- The Radical Centre -- White guilt, victimhood and the quest for a radical centre -- The Cape York agenda -- Orbits -- The intervention -- The climate change quadrant -- Fixing the Structure: Labor and Social Democracy -- Labor's white history -- The light on the hill -- Failed party -- The title to his life -- Down payments -- Profiles in Power -- Gough Whitlam -- Paul Keating -- Kevin Rudd -- Radical Hopes 1: Education -- Radical hope: Education and equality in Australia -- Progress report -- Excuse my language -- Soft bigotry -- In praise of teachers -- Radical Hopes 2: A Rightful Place -- Peoplehood -- When words aren't enough -- The Aboriginal 'community' -- A rightful place: Race, recognition and a more complete commonwealth -- Hope springs anew -- Common ground -- This week at Uluru -- Betrayal -- A Declaration of Australia -- Australia Days -- It's time.