This miscellany highlights for the reader the diversity of Indigenous groups in Australia, something that is still sometimes overlooked. There are people from all walks of life, from the country and the city and from older people to the young. Importantly, as is stated in the introduction ‘each account reveals, to some degree, the impacts of invasion and colonisation on language, on country, on ways of life, on how people are treated daily in the community, the education system, the workplace and in friendship groups’.Īlthough the names of many of the contributors may be unfamiliar others are well-known and their stories are all compelling. Heiss comments that she had many more contributions than she could include in the book. In this work, she has brought together 52 Indigenous people from all round the country to write about their experience of growing up in Australia as an Aboriginal. Wiradjuri woman Anita Heiss, is a poet, editor, author and social commentator who champions Indigenous writing and literacy.
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