No Australian should feel like a stranger in their own country

My brother and I were born in Melbourne. We enjoyed the opportunity and comfort that my parents did not. My mum and brother barrack for the Aussie cricket team, not India – much to dad's annoyance. Australia is my homeland.

Australia Day is a good day for immigrants, the descendants of immigrants and Indigenous Australians alike to declare that this is not just a white country: this is our country too. This should feel like home for all of us.

Yet there are times I have felt less at home. The sense in which Australia is a home primarily for white Anglos is changing, but it comes out sometimes in people's attitudes. Odd, given the first peoples of this land were black. Perhaps that's why I became interested in matters of Indigenous justice.