0 Box gsr, Great Wilbraham. Cambridge cess United Kingdom [rights reserved © Anta Hes, 2007 Bit poblished 2007 Reprinted 007, 3008 Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by Lghtaing Source ISBN 978 1 84474 286 5 paperback Sate Publishing te grateful acknowledges ‘he nani malta of rts Gone Sand coy, e% ° Sous ras7oseua Contents Apotogi Aboriginal Studies Anthropology is. Who's Truth Different Lives, Different Values Indigenous Totellectuals 1 don’t hate you, but My Other My 10 Point Plan for a better Australia Ode to my mother Pieces for peace Advance Australia—Unfair Checkerboard love Expectations Untitled ‘The Creator's Prayer Nameless face Holier than thou ‘Thoughts Considering Sel Why I write Pearls from an old Aunty What | know Dreaming You Stop Asking Me... ‘What is the spirit of Australia?Indigenous Intellectuals Inebony towers On red earth In UN forums At community meetings In Gucci suits Ochred up ‘Talking strategy Performing ceremony Published academic Memory man Regardless of where you are or how you pass on knowledge ‘You are both Indigenous CANBERRA, 2004 Idon't hate you, but... Idon't hate you For your ignorance Idon't hate you For your entrenched racism Idon’t even hate you Yor supporting government polices of cultural genocide Tdon’t hate you, but do want you to at least Embrace your own dysfunction Acknowledge tt And then analyse it— Just as you analyse me ‘Then I want you to Research it Observe it, Write about it, ‘And then maybe even preach about it, Just as you do about me. No. Tdon’t hate you. but .. Ido wonder about you sometimes. CANBERRA, 2004 In]My Other You are ‘my other" But you do not steal my gaze ‘Or consume my thoughts, 1am not preoccupied with trying to understand ‘what its like— to be you to be white to be the majority to be the so-called definition of civility how it must feel to assume the superior role. And I do not ask you— what it's like to be nonIndigenous to have the freedom to choose to be politically active or to choose to participate in the reconciliation process. Ido not ask you to tell me— the entire history of your society or the customs of your ancestors ‘or why your people can't seem to agree on anything. Ido not ask these questions not only because feel uncomfortable— to determine my own role my own place in this world that we share. So I wish you would start— asking yourself the same questions you ask of me and focus more on the ‘self rather than ‘the other. Sypnex, 2004 ba]