Just like the "Aboriginals" demanding rights for spirit serpents and sea songs. There is a Bunurong Land Council here, bunch of thieves which has been delisted for improper financial dealings (most would say theft). Not a full blood amongst the lot of them.
My name race is Irish. The 1840s potato famine was a factor. The features of the present day residents there are blonde; blonder than you would expect The decades of Viking raids from pirates .from Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
A great great grandmother is English, some ancestors of unknown nationality.
When my great great forebears arrived in Melbourne in 1850 on a ship from Liverpool they were already a big mix - the British were occupied by many including decades of Roman rule. Don't forget Ethred the Red.
As a youth realised a flair for language and had side jobs for Italians, Yugoslavs and others who introduced me to the lower Mafia.
Some are friends now, so have a connection to Italy, Poland and central eastern Europe.
