![]() ![]() To be honest, for an Indigenous person, it can feel like a betrayal somehow – at the very least, a capitulation. It is a blinding self-realisation that collides with the comfortable notion of who I am. ‘The idea that I am Australian hits me with a thud. In doing so, he makes the case for a more capacious Australian Dream. Grant examines how such Australians have been denied the possibilities of life, and argues eloquently that history is not destiny that culture is not static. Yet this flourishing co-exists with the boys of Don Dale, and the many others like them who live in the shadows of the nation. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of Indigenous success – cultural, sporting, intellectual and social – that we see today. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive, but to prosper. In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes Indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia. ![]()
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