Recognition and Reconciliation:Indigenous Times: Have we started on the Reconciliation bit yet? I recall this old matronly type country woman from around Berrima country who was a hundred years old and could clearly recall going out with her Dad and brothers and learning how to shoot Aborigines down by the river, then roll their bodies into the river to get rid of them. It was kind of normal for her, as a child, and being an outside-type true Aussie girl, she got pretty damn good at it too, and at horse riding and the like. As she grew into womanhood, she kept up the practice and improved her aim, and well taught her kids the various skills of shooting, and knowing where they were hiding. She went on and outlived her best friends, her husbands, and all her enemies, and died in her bed in my hospital, painlessly, surrounded by great community love, and enjoying a morphine and midazolam drip between the dry sherries. Funny old world, ain't it? No, as for Karma, no, get real, it just doesn't happen. It's not a human truth at all.