Consider yourself, you are exiled from your own land, you have no say, no rights. Not a position you want to be in, right? Bruce Dawe expresses what life was like for the innocent Indigenous citizens of Australia, in the early 1900s in his conspicuous poem ‘Exiles’. Terra Nullius, “Nobody’s Land” relates to the situation in an identifiable way as the land was never entitled to anyone. Dawe describes the impact exile has on the Aboriginal race; the pain they felt when the land they had tended for…
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