Some different histories
By Meg Hill
“Aboriginal people are forever reminded of European history, but to find Aboriginal history either in the city or the country you have to really go looking for it.”
Daniel James pointed that out while we were sitting in Docklands, where white men created the harbour, wiping out the wetlands and fresh water lake here long before it.
He wrote his prize-winning essay Ten More Days in his Docklands apartment, overlooking that harbour.
At the end of last year, the essay, largely about inter-generational trauma, won the Horne Prize. The competition asks writers to focus on Australian life.
Sometimes going digging for Aboriginal history isn’t enough, often it’s simply taken from them – not findable until it’s handed back.
Daniel, a Yorta Yorta...
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