Especially because at the start of the book he is so sure of his Native Title claim and he has all this ‘evidence’ and then suddenly they are battling it out and it seems they don’t have anything. Sucks that people are doing this!?ĭ: There was almost a point where I thought Twoboy was going to turn out to be a fake.
R: It’s heartbreaking, it’s already so hard for Aboriginal communities to get their land back, there are already so many barriers. It honestly blew my mind, there are good and bad people everywhere, exploiting opportunities.ĭ: It never crossed my mind – but of course people are exploiting it! Of course! There’s individuals who claim Native Title to take advantage of mining kickbacks and the like. Within the podcast, there’s this one episode about Native Title and corruption within that. I’m not sure if you know what ‘wrong skin’ is but it is used to describe a relationship which is forbidden under tribal laws. Sidenote: There is this amazing podcast called Wrong Skin about two missing persons in the Looma community in North Western Australia. Jo becomes embroiled in a local Native Title dispute between the two rival Aboriginal families, which leads her to profound discoveries about culture, and her and her daughter’s place in it.ĭ: I read a couple of reviews and one, from James Tierney from The Newton Review of Books, had a great quote: “Lucashenko bursts the myth that Indigenous culture must present a unified face to Australia in order to be strong” I honestly did not contemplate – to my embarrassment – that Native Title claims would be disruptive to the community. As an outsider, local Aboriginal families fight the claim.
Slowly she falls for Twoboy, an Aboriginal man who has come from Queensland to claim his family’s land back from the Crown. It is clear Jo has a deep connection to her Aboriginal culture and she has worked hard to buy herself a block of land on her ancestral lands and to care for herself and her teenage daughter. We open with Jo mowing the lawns at a cemetery for white settlers in the small town. To give you a very brief synopsis, (as always…spoiler alert), the story revolves around Jo Breen, a divorced woman and former musician who moves with her daughter to Mullumbimby. Rosie and I set about reviewing Mullumbimby this month, by Aboriginal writer Melissa Lucashenko.
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