"This bloody bullshit about the forgotten white working class – if there’s any forgotten people in Australia, if there’s any battlers in Australia, it’s brown and black people."
— Melissa Lucashenko

January 1, 1970

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On who she views as the true forgotten people in Australia in “Miles Franklin 2019 winner Melissa Lucashenko: 'We need a revolution'” in The Guardian (2019 Jul 30)