And it is imposed on us by the same Ngarrindjeri who themselves were once the colonised. The processes of colonialism in the end become self-colonising.

And yet this work is in closest rapport with the Epistle, in its exhortation to keep the commandments, in its commendation of the unburdensomeness of the commandments, in its belief in the possibility of a sinless observance of the commandments, and of a victory over Satan, […]

‘Tell me who you saw and what they said,’ she says, in one of her gossipy moods.

You'd have to be very rich or very desperate to go wildcatting that far east.