Family diversity brings new reasons to feast

Within media, social commentary, and remarks by politicians, I often see references to Islam (or to any ethnicities, practices or celebrations which fall outside of the white-centred national identity imposed by colonisation) framed as oppressive, destructive, and less-than. Such fear-mongering comments rely on people being triggered by a misled fear of loss, as I had been as an immature 12-year-old. But defining difference relies on an agreed upon definition of normal, and the normal which belongs to this land was disrupted with the arrival of the first fleet.