Sarah McCaskie

West Wyalong High School

2016, High School, Writing

I wrote from the perspective of someone unhappy with celebrating Australia Day as she and her husband are part of the Stolen Generations. My story relates to ‘Always was, Always will be’ because it shows how people celebrated 200 years of white settlement in Australia when nobody celebrated Indigenous settlement. I wanted to write about someone a part of the Stolen Generations, so I imagined being taken away from my family and then people celebrating it.