It takes a lot of courage to identify: Chris Tobin

“I love that today, in our world, Sydney world, you can proudly be an Aboriginal person.” As Chris Tobin describes, for his mother and grandmother it was not safe to declare oneself a Koori. Even today not all his relatives will admit their Aboriginality: “But I get that.”

Keywords: Identity; racism; stolen generations; values; change, attitudes

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