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Mother

My mother tells me stories.

Screen shot from 'Roget's Circular'
Interactive CDROM (2001)

There's a storyin Mum's family that her grandmother Hannah Brown was an Aboriginal woman. In 2010 I receive Emails from sons of my mother's cousin who I never knew existed. They identify as Aboriginal Australians. We share stories. Hannah's children were brought up by different families. There was a falling out between cousins over our identity. Mum's mother used to cut out certain faces from family photos. When my mother was growing up she was told that Maori people were treated better than Aborigines ('You'd get your head kicked in'). Hannah was identified as Maori (Rubbing noses is a Maori form of greeting).

Women under federal awards granted 75 per cent of the male wage.

Myxomatosis successfully introduced to combat the rabbit plague.

The Australian Almanac, Pub. Angus & Robertson 1985