Hollow Applause

The attack on Camp Sovereignty and how ordinary fears are giving cover to extraordinary hate.

Camp Sovereignty

It had all the hallmarks of a massacre apart from the body count. An Aboriginal camp at dusk on the edge of town, most of its custodians elsewhere, only a few left to defend it. Out of the chilled evening gloom, a menace of figures, dressed in black, emerged to commit a planned attack steeped in hate. To claim something that was not thei…