Perhaps the most inappropriate time I heard a welcome to country acknowledgement of the traditional custodians of the land was on ABC Jazz radio one night. I cringed. But the number of events at which I have heard the standard version is countless. I usually stifle a groan.
‘I’d like to acknowledge the <insert as appropriate> people as Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet today …’ In the immortal words of US President Joe Biden: ‘You know, the thing.’
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