![]() ![]() ‘The Aboriginal Equation’ is one passageįrom a 2018 anthology ‘Growing up Aboriginal in Australia’ including the early voices of 51 indigenous people. The position of Indigenous people is diverse with a collective consciousness of a shared experience of intergenerational trauma,Ĭommunity, country and culture. A life dedicated to paving stone roads to the next generation of Indigenous children. ![]() Worrell is a learner by nature with a passion for closing the educational gap between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous students to support access to a stable role in society. Tamika Worrell is a Kamilaroi woman who studied on Dharug country on the grounds of Macquarie University. ‘I met an Aboriginal once, they used welfare on throwaway cars.’ ‘Look at this pattern, it looks aboriginal.’ Upon seeing ‘Growing up Aboriginal in Australia’ on the bookshelves of the Daylesford bookstore I reflected upon this piece as a learning curve for my self awareness of aboriginal heritage and white invisibility when I was eighteen.įor privacy purposes some words are changed with a double asterick. ![]() This literary analysis was written in my first semester during my time in ‘Contemporary Australian Writing’. ![]()
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