5/19/2023 0 Comments The Swan Book by Alexis Wright![]() ![]() This was the place where they kept faces plucked from the World Wide Web by Army intelligence looking at computers all day long, searching for brown- and black-coloured criminals, un-assimilables, illegal immigrants, terrorists – all the undesirables those kind of people. ![]() ![]() What was a post office? The girl had listened. “If you leave here, you know what is going to happen don’t you? People are going to stop and stare at you the very instant they see the colour of your skin, and they will say: She is one of those wild Aboriginals from up North, a terrorist they will say you are one of those faces kept in the Federal Government’s Book of Suspects.īella Donna said that even though she had never seen this book for herself, she had heard that it had the Australian Government’s embossed crest on the cover, and was kept at the Post Office where anyone could study it. ![]()
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