This piece confronts the legacy Australia still lives inside — colonisation, erased voices, inherited power, and the cost of pretending history is finished when it is not. Written and painted in resistance, it refuses politeness and asks the harder question: who gets remembered, and who was taught to disappear?

This is not nostalgia.

This is not comfort.

It is literature born on stolen land, speaking back to empire, calling out the myths that shaped the Commonwealth and still shape our laws, symbols, and silences. It stands with truth over tradition, accountability over ceremony, and voices over crowns.

Australia’s story does not end where textbooks stop.

The Commonwealth’s story does not belong only to those who ruled it.

This work is an invitation to look again — and to listen.

From Australia, to the world.
from Tessa Murphy