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As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away. There are the hard questions we ask of ourselves on Australia Day. Since publishing his critically acclaimed, Walkley Award-winning, bestselling memoir Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows this is not where the story ends. In this book, Australia Day, his long-awaited follow up to Talking to My Country, Stan talks about reconciliation and the indigenous struggle for belonging and identity in Australia, and about what it means to be Australian. A sad, wise, beautiful, reflective and troubled book, Australia Day asks the questions that have to be asked, that no else seems to be asking. Who are we? What is our country? How do we move forward from here?

Stan Grant asks why when it comes to identity he is asked to choose between black and white. Is identity a myth? A constructed story we tell ourselves? Tribalism, nationalism and sectarianism are dividing the world into us and them. Communities are a tinderbox of anger and resentment. He passionately hopes we are not hard wired for hate. Grant argues that it is time to leave identity behind and to embrace cosmopolitanism. On Identity is a meditation on hope and community

Intro -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- My country: Australia -- PART ONE -- PART TWO -- PART THREE -- PART FOUR -- PART FIVE -- PART SIX -- PART SEVEN -- PART EIGHT -- PART NINE -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Sources

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 An Ancient People: Then and Now -- Chapter 1 Understanding Indigenous Australia -- Indigenous Cultures: Then and Now -- Ancient traditions -- Diversity, diversity and more diversity -- Contemporary painting, singing and dancing -- Old and new ways of storytelling -- And they can kick a ball! -- There Goes the Neighbourhood -- The takeover begins -- The colony spreads -- Loss of land -- And children taken too -- Fighting Back -- The right to be equal -- Changing the playing field -- 'We want our land back' -- Reconciliation, practical reconciliation and intervention -- 'Sorry' - and then what? -- New Problems for an Old Culture -- Breaking the cycle of poverty -- Challenging the rules and regulations -- Setting up Indigenous enterprises -- Doing It for Ourselves -- Chapter 2 Rich Past, Strong Traditions -- The First Australians -- 65,000 Years of Tradition -- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations Today -- Defining who is an Indigenous person -- Counting the Indigenous population in Australia -- Locating where Indigenous people live today -- A Note about the Torres Strait Islands -- Saying G'Day -- 'Aboriginal', 'Torres Strait Islander', 'First Nations' or 'Indigenous'? -- 'Aboriginal' or 'Aborigine'? -- Us mob: Koori, Goori or Murri -- Noongar or Nunga? -- Opening an Event: Welcome to Country -- Welcome or acknowledgement? -- What do I say? -- Whose land am I on? -- Defining the Identity of an Aboriginal Person or a Torres Strait Islander -- Stereotypes of Indigenous people -- But some of us have blond hair and blue eyes! -- Chapter 3 A Land of Cultural Diversity -- Exploring the Indigenous Relationship to Land -- Oral title deeds.