The Quarterly essay by Germain Greer usurps Australian identity within her idea of ‘Aboriginality’. And one of the benefits of being an established writer and thinker is that people listen to you so it is possible to introduce new ideas into the foray and not be mocked as a ‘crack pot’. I wish more established thinkers would imagine something fresh for Australia; surely one of the countries in the world capable of trying something new? And I like this surmising logical style of Greer’s even though the possibility of all of us becoming Aboriginals is a little impractical. Still, her argument has merit. Aboriginal culture is bigger than us and we could exist within it rather than Aboriginals being a minority within our culture. But if we all became aboriginals I can imagine that the real Aboriginals would become invisible; sort of like the inverse of the policies of the stolen generation. Culture is always about power in a democracy and unfortunately the group with the larger numbers is always going to be most powerful group. Coming from Tasmania as I do, I have always had a keen understanding of the power of the senate and I think that a more practical solution (in the world’s greatest practical nation) would to give aboriginals 4 independent seats on the senate. Identity politics doesn’t really go anywhere, just like gay identity politics. Power is real and even if we all became Greer’s ‘Aboriginals’ perhaps nothing would change. I look around my own suburb of Fitzroy where all the boys are ‘meterosexual’ but this doesn’t mean that we get any more roots.