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Mayo’s blend of historical truth-telling and practical recommendations offers a rallying cry for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians to sustain the positive momentum generated by the Voice referendum debate, and to demand consistency in policy and political will.

Sometimes people tell me that there is not enough time in a lifetime to read all of the books that they want to read, but is there ever enough time in a lifetime to do all of the things we want to do?

El-Rifae’s work penetrates to the depths a slew of important themes from justice to public space, Women’s resistance to violent sociocultural patriarchal systems and state control, meticulously interweaving these together in a narrative of solidarity and resistance.

I do, however, believe that it is important to consider whether our desire to remove texts from curricula is guided, in part, by an unwillingness to confront and sit with the discomfort of acknowledging that we sometimes enjoy things that are unfair to others.