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> Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong has urged the UK to confront its colonial past.
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Speaking at King’s College’s Centre for Grand Strategy, Senator Wong highlighted the UK’s role in the Indo-Pacific region both now and in its history.

She described her own family’s history and its relationship with British colonialism.

Ms Wong said, “Such stories can sometimes feel uncomfortable – **for those whose stories they are**, and for those who hear them.”

I can understand the meaning of the words in bold. But the grammar eludes me. Please elucidate for me.

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> *Such stories can sometimes feel uncomfortable* – [*for those whose*
> *stories they are,*] *and* [*for those who hear them*].
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The bracketed elements form a coordination of two preposition phrases linked by "and", each headed by the prep "for". In each coordinate "for" has a noun phrase as its complement, i.e. "those whose stories they are", and "those who hear them.”

These noun phases contain, respectively, the relative clause "whose stories they are", and "who hear them" functioning as modifier of "those", which is understood as "the people".

In the first coordinate the genitive noun phrase "whose stories” functions as predicative complement of "are", and is anaphoric to "those". In the second coordinate "them" is anaphoric to "stories".
I think this is not phrased properly, that it is awkward English; it seems to me that what this writer was trying to say by the means of "for those whose stories they are" was "for those who recognize themselves in the stories".

The problem : "whose stories" stands for "the stories of someone", and logically "those" is that someone, but then "they" is a subject without a logical referent. The referent cannot be "those"; it cannot be "whose stories" since there is then a redundancy; it has to be "such stories" and that is not logical.

* ~~Ms Wong said, “Such stories can sometimes feel uncomfortable – for those whose stories such storie are, and for those who hear them.~~
* Ms Wong said, “Such stories can sometimes feel uncomfortable – for those who recognize themselves in them, and for those who hear them.