Asian women in particular, when you are talking about, let’s say the West, are often perceived as being invisible, as being submissive, as being not noticed, as being quiet. There’s a lot of misreading on who and what we are, and why we are.

When hearing how Voller was treated in detention, the question people initially ask is ‘What was he in prison for?’ as though that determines whether he deserves what he gets. In Aranda House, the ‘holding facility’ used to deal with overcrowding in Alice Springs, the windows are painted black so you can’t see in and you can’t see out.

For many who have lost their homes, either in a literal sense, or in the broader sense of having lost the familiar surroundings in which they have grown up and developed their psychic landscapes, the question of what comes next is closely bound up with the question of identity. Just as the separate states have lost or changed their languages, symbols and national monuments, so too have individuals been faced with the destruction of their own private memory place.

Doctor Henry Peak, my grandpa, was a complicated and difficult man. As a result, when he died in 2006 there were a lot of conflicting emotions on the part of his immediate family: his five children (David, Patrick, Samuel, Megan and Jonathon), his ex-wife and mother of their children (Diane), his daughter-in-law (Elizabeth) and son-in-law (another Patrick), his ex daughters-in-law (Susan, Adelina, Katelin) and his brother (Paul).