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On Being Blackfella's Young Fella;Is being Aboriginal Enough;Aboriginal Identity;Glenn Loughrey Full Description This is a story of identity: how one man experienced exclusion and a sense of unworthiness in Australian society. It is the story of growing up - blackfella's youngfella - and the struggle to assimilate into the dominant, white European society. But the struggle, the search and the frustration leads to his uncovering a core question: is being Aboriginal enough? Enough to make sense of life, enough to identify as a proud and free member of an ancient people in a society that stole its land, denied its richness and crushed its sense of identity? The search also involved fear and disquiet; and conflict for the author as both an Aboriginal person and a Christian priest. Can they co-exist, or are they mutually exclusive? Thus, it is the ongoing story of his journey into a greater understanding of Aboriginality as a way of being human in this place; and along the way, a discovery that there is no such thing as Aboriginal spirituality, only Aboriginality...

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An important and powerful search for identity, Aboriginality and spiritual belonging, by a courageous Anglican priest and Wiradjuri man. A much needed book for people questioning their Aboriginal ancestry, for religious leaders in multifaith Australia, and for all Australians as we walk together towards Reconciliation. - Reverend Helen Summers OAM, Interfaith Minister, Chaplain RMIT University

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Glenn Loughrey is an Anglican Priest in the Diocese of Melbourne and the Vicar of St Oswald's, Glen Iris. He identifies as a First Nations Person and is proud to be Wiradjuri. He is an artist, writer and speaker whose style sits at the intersection of the two worlds in which he lives, the First Nation Heritage of his father and the Englishness of his mother. His art and writing recognise both the originality and the similarity of his two worlds and is an authentic attempt to keep them in conversation.

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