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In her poem, she implies that the Aboriginals feel like outcasts in their ‘home’ where they should be feeling comfortable and like they belong, ‘we are going as strangers here now, but the white tribe are the strangers.’ This identifies the way they feel as you can tell the writer is uncomfortable in her own town surrounded by her family. Another way that shows the way the white settlers treated the indigenous ‘they came here to the place of their bora ground,’ and ‘notice of estate agent reads: ‘Rubbish May Be Tipped Here’ This contrast suggests that white settlers treat the Aborigines sacred place like a dump and therefore show now respect towards the Aboriginals cultures. Walker is not happy with the way they are going to b treating their land, especially their bora ground. A metaphor that portrayed the Australian Experience is “We are the shadow ghosts creeping back as the camp fire burn low” is explaining how the Aboriginals, the original landowners, are the ones slowly creeping back while the white settlers are by the fire. The indigenous people should not be treated as the ghosts and having to sneak around. Therefore the composer implies that she clearly does not like they way the whites have taken over the Aboriginal communities. And that the Whites made some negative impacts on the communities the aboriginals already