Born in 1969 as Cassandra Davison to an Aboriginal mother and an American father of European ancestry, Marlene Scicluna’s (here onwards, Marlene) life was impacted by the final years of Australia’s Assimilation Policy (Hasluck, 1961), which claimed that the lives of ‘half-caste’ Indigenous children would be better assimilated in white society. Adopted at birth by Maltese migrant parents in their fifties, she was taken to their motherland, oblivious of her negated history. Discovering her Aboriginal heritage as a teenager led to a traumatic existence, as Marlene grieved the loss of her identity and her sense of belonging.