Reconciliation Week

In tutor group on Monday 3 June, we were reflecting on Reconciliation Week by watching ‘You Can’t Ask That’. Reconciliation Week is from the 27 May to 3 June and its purpose is for all Australians to share and learn about Australia’s history and for each of us to contribute to creating reconciliation in Australia.

‘You Can’t Ask That’ was a short television show exploring the casual racism/discrimination that Indigenous Australian’s experience. The show filmed Indigenous Australians reading out questions that people ask and offed them with and reacting, to show others what to/what not to ask and how to approach questions and avoid the unintended racism. The reactions from the people answering the questions showed me how often the questions occur when they laugh about the question and joke about them. Another aspect that I learnt from was the different reactions depending on the tribes and the history people have had with racism. On the whole, “You Can’t Ask That’”, was very informative and led me to understand just a small part of Aboriginal life with relation to discrimination. I believe the show was a great choice for people to understand the meaning of Reconciliation Week and was very beneficial.

Please find below a link to the program.

John Joseph (10HS)