Pip, Germaine Greer is brilliant on many issues, but she has no right to speak on behalf of indigenous people, which she often does as a generalised knee-jerk reaction.

Marcia Langton and germaine Greer are as stroppy as each other and are quite capable of arguing their own views equally strongly. Like Marcia Langton and the current government, I support reconciliation with our Indigenous people. It has been an incredibly significant step forward for indigenous Australians.

Yes, I disagree with many of the government's indigenous policies, and I note Indigenous Australians are divided over many of them, and that's the way of the world and will always be. however the current government has just announced the largest expenditure towards indgenous health and housing that has ever been granted in the history of our country.

We are moving forward, and part of moving forward is acknowledging the past. and that's where the argument is - everyone wants the past acknowledged in their own way, their own version of it.

In Redfern, one suburb away from my home, and the heart of the koori community in Sydney, they like the film. Kids growing up there are going to see the film more than once - because it's a film that they can relate to, the stories of their parents and grandparents are in there.

It's a story, not a documentary. It's entertainment, and yet it tells a story that is crucial to our history, that hasn't been told before.

I was entertained, amused, delighted, apalled and moved by that film. and i wish to enjoy it in the context of my own understanding and experience of our country - i don't need to be lectured by Germaine greer, a woman who has lived elsewhere for decades and is not experiencing the pulse of what's happening here now.