‘We have yet to reach our postcolonial moment’: Chelsea Watego on colonialism and the canon

The Brisbane author and academic talks about her new book, settler colonialism and the everyday-ness of ongoing dispossession

Celebrated Munanjahli and South Sea Islander academic and writer Chelsea Watego unambiguously wrote her book Another Day in the Colony for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readership.

There's nothing stopping you reading it if you're not Indigenous. But if you do with an open mind - even if you're the type of progressive" whitefella who considers him- or herself conversant with the woeful and violent racism upon which Australia is founded - you might wander about for days afterwards with ringing in your ears.