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Indigenous affairs correspondent Carly Williams and Indigenous affairs reporter Kirstie Wellauer 

Australia Day creates mixed feelings for Indian Australians on January 26, as public perception continues to evolve

Meena Singh calls herself an Aboriginal girl with an Indian name. 

Her mother is a Yorta Yorta woman from northern Victoria and her father is an Indo-Fijian man who migrated to Melbourne in the 1960s. He was the grandson of indentured labourers who travelled from India to Fiji during British colonisation to work the sugarcane fields — what Mena calls "slaves with a time frame". 

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