Expresses concerns for two marginalised and oppressed groups in Australia - gay people and the Aboriginal community; discusses conscience and Aboriginal rights; Aboriginal history of Victoria; comments on Archbishop Polding and his response to 1838 massacres; setting up of mission at Stradbroke Island and Oodgeroo's story relating to the mission; relates the story of John David Murra, a young Aboriginal boy, taken from his family to be sent to Rome, and who died in Genoa; briefly examines the attitude of the Catholic Church to the circumstances of Aboriginal people from 1860's to the present; Appendix III is "Twenty five years at Redfern"
