McGrath, Ann2022-06-221837-0497http://hdl.handle.net/1885/267473By the 1960s, when I was growing up there, Queensland had become skilled at burying the Aboriginal past, and Queenslanders spoke about its traces in hushed tones. As a child, I wondered why. I recall a particular day when my grandfather Joe whispered that some of his neighbours had a “touch of the tarbrush.” “What does that mean?” I had no clue. He told me that it meant Aboriginal ancestry. Iapplication/pdfen-AU© 2016 The authors20162020-12-20