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Flat White

Welcome to country: the racism of ‘arrivalism’

3 October 2023

5:30 AM

3 October 2023

5:30 AM

Recently, I attended an outdoor painting festival. At the opening of the exhibition, the white Caucasian blonde MC did the usual ‘Welcome to Country’. That, in itself, was insane because from my observations there was not a single Aboriginal person in the audience of more than 200 artists and guests.

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