The current stage of Australia's political life

I've been doing more study of the excellent MOOC Chile course on human rights (see here), and had a thought about the norms which should be applying in Australia.

The course refers to norms that vary, depending on the stages of political life of a nation.

Those stages are:

(a) foundation;
(b) sustainable life;
(c) crisis; and
(d) recovery from crisis, or "re-foundation or reconstruction".

Manu people would assume that Australia is in the second stage - a stable, "sustainable" existence (notwithstanding the various political crises we have). I argue, however, that, because of the continuing divisive presence of racism and the still-present, ongoing legacy of our violent racist past (all of which is partly signified by the sensitivity many people have to such matters being raised), we are actually at a dithering starting point of "re-foundation or reconstruction".

We need to adopt transitional justice procedures - and the need grows as we continue to dither.