Australia is a multicultural place. Perhaps we even invented our own form of multiculturalism. Indigenous, British, European and Asian – what happens in this interaction? Do we really understand it? What is multiculturalism anyway?

In this timely essay, acclaimed novelist and essayist Christos Tsiolkas takes a deep dive into Australia as it was, is and will be. From Botany Bay to Bonegilla to Box Hill and beyond … What histories lie beneath a colourful but bland surface? What does multicultural Australia know?

In this powerful essay, Tsiolkas makes the case for a complex notion of belonging.