Sydney is an Indigenous place – Indigenous Country – infused with Indigenous stories and lore/Law. Yet as the original site of British colonisation in 1788, Sydney today is also a deeply-colonised place. Long-held narratives of Sydney as a colonial city have worked hard to erasure Indigenous peoples’ presences and to silence Indigenous stories of this place (Rey and Harrison, 2018). In recent years, however, Indigenous-led tours on Country are emerging in the Greater Sydney region, whereby Indigenous guides share with visitors stories of place, history, culture, language and connection. We write together as Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, in conversation with four Indigenous tour operators in the Greater Sydney region to reflect on their experiences of conducting Indigenous tours in this Indigenous-yet-deeply-colonised place. We document the kinds of ‘deep-colonising’ (Rose, 1996) narratives and assumptions the operators encounter during their tours and within the tourism industry, and highlight how Indigenous tour operators facilitate many non-Indigenous peoples in taking their first steps towards meaningful interactions with Indigenous Sydney-siders. We conclude that Indigenous tour operators undertake incredibly complex, confronting and challenging emotional labours trying to change the pervasive and deep-colonising narratives and assumptions about Indigenous peoples in the Greater Sydney region. In a world where the histories of thousands of cities ‘lie in dispossession and genocide of Indigenous peoples’ (Porter, 2020: 15), we argue for further and careful analytical attention on Indigenous tourism encounters in Indigenous – yet deeply-colonised – places.

悉尼是一个土著地方-土著国家-充满了土著故事和传说/法律。然而，作为1788年英国殖民统治的原始地点，今天的悉尼也是一个殖民地很深的地方。悉尼作为殖民城市的悠久叙事一直在努力消除土著人民的存在并压制这个地方的土著故事（Rey and Harrison，2018）。然而，近年来，在大悉尼地区，以乡村为主导的乡村旅游正在兴起，土著导游与游客分享有关地点，历史，文化，语言和联系的故事。我们与大悉尼地区的四名原住民旅游经营者交谈，共同作为原住民和非原住民研究人员，以反思他们在这个尚未深入殖民的地方进行原住民旅游的经验。我们记录了经营者在旅行中以及在旅游业中遇到的“深度殖民”叙述（Rose，1996），并着重强调了土著旅行社如何促进许多非土著人民迈出第一步，实现有意义的互动与悉尼土著居民一起。我们得出的结论是，土著旅行社承担着令人难以置信的复杂，面对和挑战的情感劳动，试图改变关于大悉尼地区土著人民的普遍和深入殖民的叙述和假设。在这个成千上万的城市历史上都存在着对土著人民的剥夺和种族灭绝的世界中（Porter，2020：15），我们主张对在土著人民但深深殖民地的土著旅游遭遇进行进一步和认真的分析。