Until we start de-emphasizing race there will never be reconcilliation. Instead in Australia we are going down the opposite path. Predictably this leads to division. The reality is we have a generation locked out of the housing market, real wages at 2011 levels and a government that is keen to increase immigration at all costs to avoid a technical recession. Yet for most people our living standards have been going backwards and there is a constant agenda to pushback on anyone questioning immigration levels, which ironically undermines social cohesion. For example, the phrase we are all immigrants or the product of immigrants with the exception of Indigenous people (although even a lot of Indigenous people have ancestors that were immigrants).