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Cattle class

By Alexandra Marshall - posted Friday, 26 July 2019

My cultural heritage lies in a country I've never been to.

I am only allowed to have a spiritual connection to lands my ghosts passed through.

People like me, we are indigenous to nowhere. Culturally stateless. Cattle-class in the eyes of our government who have no interest in our stories.

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Our virtue is a tally of our ancestors and that is a mountain I can never climb.

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Alexandra Marshall (ellymelly) is an Australian IT professional, farmer, writer and political blogger.You can follow her on twitter @ellymelly.

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