Acknowledgement of Country We recognise the First Peoples of this nation and their ongoing connection to culture and country. We acknowledge First Nations Peoples as the Traditional Owners, Custodians and Lore Keepers of the world's oldest living culture and pay respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. This preamble is now said or read before any major gathering be it a school assembly, a board meeting, a concert or a sporting event Artwork: Connection to Country, 2021 by Shaenice Allan I’ve been thinking about our controversial Australia Day which is held on January 26th. Some people celebrated, others mourned, especially our First Nations people for whom the arrival of the First Fleet of ts in 1788 marked the beginning of their dispossession from the land they had occupied for the previous 65,000 years. Quite probably it wasn’t a particularly happy occasion for the hapless convicts who were involuntarily dumped here by the British Cr...
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