not the motorcycle diaries

“We need some sort of ‘gap’ between Indigenous and non Indigenous societies, a moratorium, a time of exclusion to allow communities to consolidate their heritage.”

– Kim Scott & Hazel Brown, Kayang and Me, 2005, p. 258.

“Under the societal conditions that we tolerate - or resist, as the case may be - perhaps genuine dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists is not possible, or only fleetingly so. Perhaps it is only possible if it is based on a radicalized relationship (such as that manifested under Walker’s treaty), wherein there is a commitment to subvert the conditions of colonialism on an individual and societal level.”

– Clare Land, ‘How non-Indigenous people have tried to help Indigenous people’s struggles in Australia’, A Space Outside Reader, 2006, p. 63