gilburri

While Henry Lawson is celebrated as a foundational voice of Australian literature who championed the struggles of the white working class, his works largely erase, marginalise, or stereotype Aboriginal peoples—reflecting and reinforcing the settler-colonial logic of his era. From a Kabi Kabi perspective, rooted in the living sovereignty of the Mary River (Monoboola), Lawson’s “bush” is not an empty or heroic frontier but a stolen homeland, saturated with ancestral law, songlines, and ongoing res