In some ways it is heartbreakingly appropriate to reflect on historian Patrick Wolfe's last book and intellectual legacy on the tenth birthday of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER, the Intervention). A decade ago, the Intervention left many of us struggling to understand what seemed like a radically changing political landscape in Indigenous policy. Into this confusion, for us and many others, came the powerful and illuminating analysis of Patrick Wolfe.
So who am I/we today in this new so-called 'post-colonial landscape'? (I say so-called postcolonial because from my lived experiences there is very little which is postcolonial to the Aboriginal experience in Australia).
