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Living cultures under the acts
These stories go something like this: pioneering spirit and entrepreneurialism have built success for the whites who have flourished, while congenital bad character leads our peoples to our inevitable conclusions. Pioneering spirit is celebrated across the landscape: Pioneer Park. Pioneer’s Sculpture. Bicentennial Park.
Being here
BACK IN 2015, when we were getting the local language work going here at the Aireys Inlet Primary School...
My mother’s silence, my nation’s shame
ON 4 FEBRUARY 1942, stripped of all identification, hands wired behind his back, my grandfather and some 160 other...
Dune coons and crescent moons
FIRST WORDS Kes emak. Your mum’s cunt. Don’t judge. I learn them from my mother. She is at Coles in Redfern,...
Writing back
SIR SAMUEL GRIFFITH was my great-great grandfather. He was one of the ‘founding fathers’ of Australian Federation, a premier...
Old gods
Our old gods they are called false they are cut from the land like a mountain nothing holds firm the...
They cannot say their thoughts
(or, If Cohen sang Oodgeroo)
Dance me to the rhythm of a language (I don’t speak) ’Neath sapphire-misted mountains they might kill (ya) Breathe out brokin...
the sweet lie
my ancestors peer towards dry land from the deck of a ship; or are they like swine, packed into the...
Kangaroo Island 1819
The fucker’s hanging in the air. The rope’s as black against the light as his black skin, though his skin...
Q/A
U like America? No U like China? No U like Australia? Sort of U like what about Australia? A small country pretending to be bitter than it is,...
Dawning
While her mother lies pinned to her bed under the startling weight of a cut to the abdomen more than...
Muhammad Ali and beauty
The discipline of Nijinsky’s dance the precision of Bach’s improv the reach of Woolf’s spacetime the audacity of Brontë’s narrative the originator of...
