"It is like having double vision. We see the world that white people see but we are also seeing a mythic landscape at the same time and an historic landscape. White people see Rotary parks and headlands, we see sacred sites."
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On how the indigenous view the world differently in “The interview: Melissa Lucashenko” in The Sydney Morning Herald (2013 Mar 9)
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