I was reading Tim Winton's Eyrie at the time. A fine book, prima facie nothing to do with settler colonialism.

Yet there are passing references to Aboriginal people - begging, dying in custody.
There, the novel runs into the frame which contains all the rest: the dispossession that made Australia.

Can't wait to read it!

And even when settler colonialism is not the focus, the narrative consciously or otherwise often runs into that frame, with references, more or less passing, to the Indigenous people dispossessed by it (down to every reference to Thanksgiving or Indian burial grounds).

Describing the multicultural society you are supposedly leading with language like “squalid”, “failed experiment”, “island of strangers” is even with the most bend over backwards generous spin, just horrifyingly irresponsible and inflammatory

And that Lee Carvallo never existed

I am here for this content.

There ain't no AI and there never was!