Foreword

[Spoken Word: Archie Roach]

Hey, hey, everybody

I'm, I'm Archie, Archie Roach

I was actually born a Mooroopna

And my people are Gunditjmara people from south-west Victoria

Yeah, my mum's, ah, from, ah, Framlingham—Aboriginal mission down in south-west Victoria

Ah, my dad's a Bundjalung man from northern New South Wales

And that's me, Archie

[Spoken Word: Briggs]

Excellent

And, um, when you hear a record like the record we put together

[Spoken Word: Archie Roach]

Nah, it, ah, give you goosebumps, ah

It's strong, like—you know?

It, ah, gets your blood up

Ah, it's real, it's, it's, it's, it's

It's today, it's, ah—you know, we, we, we marched down the street

Back in the '70s, '80s, '70s

We marched for land right—we marched for land rights, you know?

We walked down the street to Melbourne

We brought that city to a stand-still

We had two thousand, and we wouldn't move until we were ready

Because there's still rights, and housing

How many met, including land and so many other things

And listening to your album

It just reminds me so much of that old days

And it brings back that time when we did pump our fists in the air

Because you had to be, you had to be in their face

You had to be in their face