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AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS & WRITERS FOR PEACE
I'm A White Australian! by Kathleen Morgan

[Above] Photo of Kathleen Morgan by David Hammer, 2004.

Kathleen Morgan

I'm A White Australian!

White Australia...
stop and look,
you've been reading
the wrong history book.

White Australia...
got it wrong
when they came here
singing England's song.

White Australia...
should apologize
for destroying so
many Koori lives.

White Australia...
full of power and greed,
how can such values
Ever succeed?

White Australia...
do you really care
about this land
we all share?

White Australia...
it's not guilt and blame,
it's hearing the story,
feeling the pain.

White Australia...
Understand and respect,
there's been enough
ignorance and neglect.

White Australia...
take a look,
it's time to rewrite
the history book.

Published in The Koori Mail (Australia).

About the Poet Kathleen Morgan

Born in 1969 and raised in suburban Sydney, the writing of poetry began seriously at the age of eight years old, inspired by the desire to express emotion, following a traumatic event. Relocation to the lower mid-north coast of NSW for eleven years inspired the co-founding of the Great Lakes Fellowship of Australian Writers (NSW), the Great Lakes Young Writers Group, and membership with the Poets Union, Sydney (since 1996). Publication in various anthologies, newspapers, and newsletters (regional, national, and international) followed, with the first publication of poetry occurring in a local newspaper (1992), followed by the first publication within an anthology (1994), and first performed public reading of original works at the NSW Writers Centre, Sydney (1991). While employed as a Teachers Aide, the establishment of creative writing groups for gifted and talented students within a number of NSW public and independent schools was undertaken, while also utilising poetry to develop literacy skills in special needs' students. Presently developing works within the realm of cyberculture, and working on self publishing a first collection of poems. Currently based in Sydney and employed as a part time childcare worker, while also writing, researching, and living a creative life with her visual artist partner David Vincent Hammer, and their son Nathan.
   [Above] Photo of Kathleen Morgan by David Hammer, 2004.

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