Key Themes and Messages (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

False claim that Australia was empty land

Using 'you' to implicate readers in ongoing dispossession

Ongoing process, not a historical event

Living entity, relationship-based, custodianship

Living 'off' land, taking without reciprocity

Destruction of Indigenous ways of knowing

Creation paths embedded in Country

Removing Indigenous children from families

Admitting truth means being aliens, not legitimate migrants

Your possession is their dispossession