Being a Prime Minister or President is, in itself, a violent, abusive, coercive, genocidal and colonial role to play. If I was in that role, my job would be to put myself out of work and dismantle the state. The level of reconciliation that we are looking for cannot happen while the state exists. It is impossible for the state to reconcile their relationship because they are founded on violence, coercion and ownership of land. As THE land owner, how can people have a relationship with the land? They cannot. So the state must step aside so that the people can return to the land without any land lord or intermediary getting in the way of those relationships. By ending the violence and separating, that allows the healing to take place. Once the healing has occurred and firm boundaries are in place, then reconciliation can start - as equals - without state governance. That is, in my view, the only way we are going to reconcile the relationships that have been damaged all these years. We have a long way to go.