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Cattle class : Comments

By Alexandra Marshall, published 26/7/2019

When I was young and naive I believed that I was Australian.

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it's happening in National Parks, State Forests and Private Lands across Australia.
Little,
I give you one guess who is at fault !
Posted by individual, Monday, 29 July 2019 7:37:20 PM
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"People like me, we are indigenous to nowhere. Culturally stateless. Cattle-class in the eyes of our government who have no interest in our stories."

I think Alexandra Marshall has touched on an important point here.

The official line presently goes something like this: all those living in Australia at the moment are either Indigenous Australians - or "First Nations Peoples" to use an imported Canadian term - or otherwise belong to diverse, multicultural Australia. In other words, you're either indigenous in the very narrow racial sense of the word or you're a recent migrant with an identity rooted in another land.

This implies that if you're not Aboriginal and don't identify with recent immigration from all over the world as a key aspect of your identity, then you don't really exist. It suggests that European Australians whose ancestors have been here for generations have no more of a connection to this country than someone who recently arrived from, say, India or China.

Despite forming the majority of the population (at least for now), Anglo-Celtic Australians are not recognised or afforded any status as a group in our society. Their heritage and stories are never promoted. In the eyes of officialdom, the media and academia, they are a non-people.
Posted by FrankU, Saturday, 3 August 2019 1:32:20 PM
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Sorry, the above sentence should read: "The official line presently goes something like this: all those living in Australia at the moment are either Indigenous Australians - or "First Nations Peoples" to use an imported Canadian term - or otherwise belong to diverse, multicultural, migrant Australia."
Posted by FrankU, Saturday, 3 August 2019 1:35:26 PM
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