When white Australians became ‘just Australians’, they could keep the land and power without being reminded of how they were attained
“Where are you from?”
There are few other questions in Australia that help shed a light on the overlapping and contradictory sense of sovereignty and belonging between Indigenous people, white people, and non-Indigenous people of colour.
White person: Where are you from?
Non-white, non-Indigenous person: Melbourne.
