White Australia. Martial law was declared on my people, the Wiradjuri nation, during the 1820’s in what was referred to as an “exterminating war.”The survivors were locked away on segregated missions and reserves. I knew standing there alongside so many white Australian faces that I did not belong. Her mother – a white Australian woman – was turned away from a hospital having her first child. We are only roughly 3% of the Australian nation yet more than a third of prison population.

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