Gianna Rizzo/Malthouse Colonisation in this country has always been carried on the bodies of Aboriginal women. Many of these women, our grandmothers and aunties, were forced into domestic service in the homes of wealthy white families. They cleaned, cooked and cared for white children while being denied the right to raise their own. They received little or no pay and faced violence and abuse without accountability. Their stories were often hidden, dismissed, silenced and excluded from official