Cloudstreet Is Marginaliising Aboriginal People
I believe that Cloudstreet is marginalising Aboriginal people by stereotyping them and referencing them as a comparison of the white people. The Aboriginal people seem to appear as figures of the past or as unrealistic and spiritual people, such as the Aboriginal girl spirits and the Aboriginal man that seems to appear and disappear at certain points of the novel. The book doesn’t discuss in detail that the house was built on Aboriginal land but that the Lambs and Pickles belonged to this house, this symbolises the colonisation of the white’s settlers taking away from the Indigenous people. Also Winton recognised that during the 60’s Aboriginals didn’t have many rights such as voting; Lester says, ‘Jesus that’s a bit rough. They need a union’