STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES MOUTH

LULU — HIDDEN, NOT LOST - The Anaiwan ancestor at the beginning of my family story

There are some family histories that are handed down in complete sentences. There are names spoken at the kitchen table, photographs placed carefully in albums, dates written in the margins and stories repeated so often that children grow up believing they will always be there. Then there are the histories that survive in fragments. A name written differently in one record and another. A woman described by a European name. A birthplace guessed rather than recorded. A family l

Eureka Stockade: The Battle the Government Won and the People Remembered. This article discusses violence, the deaths of miners and soldiers, and the dispossession of First Nations people. Names of deceased people are included in the historical account. The Eureka Stockade is often described as the birthplace of Australian democracy. That description contains truth, but it can also make the story too comfortable. Eureka was not a neat founding moment in which everyone stood

ONE NATION NO MORE: Why I Wrote This Song