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Russell Yardley a professional non-exec director, said, "no serious person disputes the British inheritance of Australia’s language, law and political institutions. The question Noel Pearson is raising is different. It is whether Australia has articulated a philosophy of country that integrates the full human history of this continent. Indigenous cultures expressed philosophy through law, land, kinship and story rather than written texts, but that does not make it absent. Parkes was speaking to an English-dominated colonial establishment seeking federation, not to the deeper civilisational history of the continent." This book speaks to who we are, as decedents of white people living on indigenous lands in all parts of the world. That is, to understand social justice movements around the world, we need to examine our own biases, perspectives, and history as these communities engaged in human rights issues. We have to make visible the connections between participatory action, research, and empowerment. Although the language used to describe these areas may be different, depending on one’s local context and history, in truth we are all one people.