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Mixed Relations
Towards R.contiguring Australian History

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Under these conditions it became difficult to remain 'coloured '.
Despite such pressures to become either Aboriginal or simply non-Aboriginal, assertions of hybrid identities emanate from the north with its poly-ethnic past. The family of Antonio Cubillo and
Lily McKeddie was typical of the mixed community at Police
Paddocks in Darwin. One of their descendants wrote a play about their relationship, called Keep Him My Heart. The subtitle of the play,
A Larrakia-Filipino Love Story, speaks volumes about remembering and celebrating a hybrid lineage. Most descendants of this family today define themselves as staunchly Aboriginal. Yet Tex Camfoo at
Barunga referred to one of the daughters of this marriage as 'a
Filipino lass ' who managed nearby Beswick station with her White husband. This perhaps underlines the range of identities which were able to emerge froma poly-ethnic past.
To demonstrate how uncertain the boundaries of Aboriginal identity have always been, I referred earlier to the Ahwang family from Thursday Island. Among its descendants, there are women voy­ aging into the Pacific to reassemble family links, and others

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Maningrida Arts and Culture Cen­ tre, Willi~ panjati Gunderra, George Gulan 'buma PUkulat 'pi and Terrichi
Yumbulul at Galiwin 'ku, June 1995. Maningrid(l means abrus seed bay.

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in their account of the journey: Michael Copke l Makassar and Northeast
ArnhernLand-Missing Links and Living Bridges (Batchelor College, July
1987). Macknight kindly,presented me with a, copy of the rare manuscript in which it first appeared, A History of the Kingdom of Gowa by Abdur­ razak Daeng Patunru, Sedjarah Goa (Jajasan Kebudajaan Sulawesi
Selatan dan Tenggara di Makassar, 1967), republished a few years later with the updated indonesian spelling.
6 David Walker (ed.), Bridge and Barrier-The Natural and Cultural History of
Torres Strait (Canberra: ANU Press, 1972).
7 Tony Swain, A Place for Strangers: Towards A History ofAustralian Aborigi­ nal being (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

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