![]() ![]() Stan Grant is Indigenous Affairs editor for the ABC and Chair of Indigenous Affairs at Charles Sturt University. We are so used to telling ourselves that Australia is a white country: am I now white? The reality is more ambiguous … To borrow from Franz Kafka, identity is a cage in search of a bird.’ -Stan Grant, The Australian Dream 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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