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They're big on welcomes to country and smoking out malevolent spirits at the Academy of Science, where an uncompromising adherence to political correctness puts the wokest of very woke to shame. I wonder, though, if that enthusiasm for 'truth-telling' extends to raking over the racist views of its founder, the physicist and later Governor of South Australia Sir Mark Oliphant?
On this day in 1972, the news that Pastor Doug Nicholls was created a Knight Bachelor for “distinguished services to the advancement of the Aboriginal people”, the first Indigenous Australian to receive a knighthood, was featured on the front page of The Age.