I feel very awkward reviewing an Indigenous Australian author's views on what it means to be Australian and the way forward for us as a people and a nation, but I really struggled with Grant's position that we should all move past our colonised/coloniser history and all just be "Australian".

I am not a First Nations person but I have friends and family who are, and through talking with them and through reading First Nations authors, I cannot help but feel Grant's views - whilst often focusing on liberalism - are very conservative. Too conservative, in fact. I also felt his views swung between idealistic views of moving beyond race and culture and stories deeply rooted in identity born from race and culture.

At the very least, this book gave me a little insight into the double consciousness that many Indigenous Australians possess and how hard it can be to reconcile them.

I started with the book and switched to the audiobook. Grant is a great orator, but I found his writing style to be repetitive and stilted in many places.