I've always thought of myself as Australian since I was born and bred there. And I'm also 5th generation Aussie.
But I've always thought that the people who have lived on the land for thousands, if not tens of thousands of years before my ancestors arrived, have more rights to the land than more recent immigrants.
If nothing else, I believe that it's part of the newly arrived culture to help preserve and protect the cultures of the earlier inhabitants of the land if at all possible.
There are a few exceptions.
But I've always thought that the people who have lived on the land for thousands, if not tens of thousands of years before my ancestors arrived, have more rights to the land than more recent immigrants.
If nothing else, I believe that it's part of the newly arrived culture to help preserve and protect the cultures of the earlier inhabitants of the land if at all possible.
There are a few exceptions.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
