A shining city

Nestled between these mirrored towers are squat and solid heritage buildings, remnants of an uncomfortable colonial past. Sprinkled here and there are galleries of Aboriginal art and museums of shameful truth. This shining city has grown from rocks once home to the extinct Cadigal people who lived in family communities and fished on these shores. The rock was hewn into building blocks by convicts transported for often minor misdemeanours, lucky to still be alive. Difficult to know who was treated worse.