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Amy Daniel grew up with constant questions about her heritage and culture, something she still faces today. “A lot of people ask me and say, ‘You’re too white to be Aboriginal. You’re too beautiful to be Aboriginal. You don’t talk like Aboriginal people’,” she said. He says at first it angered him and made him question himself, but now he is using it to educate others. “I took the opportunity to teach people that no matter how much milk you put in a cup of tea, you are still a bit black on the inside.” This 23-year-old Nukunu woman first found out she was a Native when she was in high school. He was born and raised in Queanbeyan but his descendants are from the country of Nukunu, near Port Augusta in South Australia. Ms Daniel recently started to connect more deeply with her culture after moving to Wagga Wagga, in southern New South Wales. “I paint a lot so I found a bit of connection there and enjoyed learning more about my cu...

A bestselling children’s book stars a new kind of hero — she’s a girl, she’s an Indigenous Australian, and she’s a fighter. Guardians: Wylah the Koorie Warrior is an illustrated chapter book; a fantasy adventure set 40,000 years ago in the land of Peek Whurrong in southwest Victoria. Australian children instantly became obsessed with Wylah, making the book one of the best-selling children’s novels of the year so far, and sending it to the top of the charts at booksellers Booktopia and Readings. And the good news for kids who’ve read this book is that the author has mapped out a whole world of new characters and new adventures to ensure the Wylah series can run for years to come. Jordan Gould and Richard Pritchard created the Wylah book series. ( Provided: Allen & Unwin ) Authors inspired by their single mothers Warrnambool-based co-authors Richard Pritchard and Jordan Gould said the book began with a vision for Wylah—a strong First Nations girl...

When Netflix announced its adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, fans of the novel were “half in pain, half hope”. While there are a large number of Austen remakes, very few are wholeheartedly embraced as novel equivalents, and even fewer are not based on Pride and Prejudice. The main difficulty comes from the fans themselves: as with many established fandoms, the constant hunger for new material is paired with extremely high standards and expectations. Directed by eminent theater director Carrie Cracknell and starring Dakota Johnson, Netflix’s Persuasion tells the story of 27-year-old ‘spider’ Anne Elliot, a woman with “claims of birth, beauty and mind”, as she reconnects with Captain Wentworth (Cosmos Jarvis). ), the suitor he had persuaded to turn down eight years earlier because he was a penniless sailor. Persuasion is arguably Austen’s most mature work. First published in 1817, it was the last novel he wrote and was complete...