THIS IS OUR LEGACY

Samantha Nolan-Smith
3 min readJan 25, 2018

How did we get to the point where we thought it would be ok to celebrate our nation on the day Captain Phillip rowed into Sydney Harbour and unlawfully claimed Aboriginal land on behalf of the British monarch?

I guess when your history is as violent as ours, such blatant disrespect is a small thing. After all, we also stole their children, deliberately poisoned their communities, appropriated their lands, stopped them from…

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Samantha Nolan-Smith

Feminist writer, visibility coach. I support women to be more visible by releasing the social conditioning that keeps us hidden. www.theschoolofvisibility.com