Race is a social construct – the colour of your skin does not make you a blackfella, politician or not!
A cultural personal identity means nothing in the greater scheme of things and flagging attention to individual cultural personal identity has no place in the Australian parliament. ‘Indigenous parliamentarian’ is said to be a member of the Australian parliament who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander or as having Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander ancestry. The place we come from is not explained […]