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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY

“We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we work and pay our respects to Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.

We recognise the past atrocities against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this land and that Australia was founded on the genocide and dispossession of First Nations people. We acknowledge that colonial structures and policies remain in place today and recognise the ongoing struggles of First Nations people in dismantling those structures. The struggle to seek justice, to remember and address this nation’s past is ongoing and is a necessary requirement for individual and collective healing process.

We support the Uluru Statement from the Heart to achieve justice, recognition and respect for First Nations people and a referendum to enshrine a First Nations Voice in the Constitution. We accept the invitation contained in the Statement to walk together with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.”







“A Darker Shade of Light” 

(First Nation Australia from mind of whitefella)

My people 
see your people
simple ignorant
crazy greedy
black cockatoo 
laughing eyes 
smiling angry 
all seeing 
spit signature
fingers spread
on hands pointing
bones at my people
ochre powder 
yellow cake 
red earth bleeding
white fella 
yellow belly snake
blowing out 
the fires of our 
stolen children
torn from our 
mob, not yours
swallowed 
by your 
gadaidja fangs 
sinking into the skin 
of our land
poison 
all around 
greedy gubbah 
when will you 
understand

our nation 
not your flag

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)

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