The Last Aboriginal Person Standing in Australia

At the beginning of this new century, I was deeply concerned about whether Aboriginal people in this country had the will to survive much longer. This was a period of time when Australian governments were waging a vicious narrative war against the dignity and rights of their people. The results of our long struggle to achieve a self-determined future during this time has not been regained. As my officemen states in my novel Carpentaria, you know who we hear about all the time now: the international mining company, and even we, any of our uneducated buggers, are talking globally. We are already severely affected in our ability to survive in terms of culture, tradition, laws, lanes,