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Australian Notes

Resistance to Acknowledging Country is futile

16 July 2016

9:00 AM

16 July 2016

9:00 AM

As another bleak winter NAIDOC Week draws to a close, let us reflect on the strange ritual that is the Acknowledgement of Country. That is, the obligatory mumble about paying respects to the traditional owners of the land upon which a drab office block or dingy school hall is situated, and within which a dreary meeting or joyless assembly is about to be held.

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