The Wire

In September 2011 columnist Andrew Bolt was found guilty of breaching the racial discrimination Act when he named a group of Aboriginal people as being too fair skinned to call themselves aboriginal. That case raised a lot of discussion about race and identity. Author Anita Heiss was one of the people Bolt named and she’s now released a book telling her own story and dealing with the issue of race and identity

The Book, called  “Am I Black enough for you ” comes hard on the heels of the Bolt case but she says she had already started writing it a few years earlier, inspired by her own reflections on what it meant to be a privileged Aboriginal person.