Authors
Libby Porter
Publication date
2018/4/3
Journal
Australian geographer
Volume
49
Issue
2
Pages
239-246
Publisher
Routledge
Description
I write from the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, who have practised their sovereignty and law in Naarm, more familiarly known as Melbourne, for countless generations. I acknowledge their time-honoured and continuing care for the Country I now call home and in so doing pay respect to Wurundjeri people, their ancestors and old people, their Elders present and future. Words like these are now routinely offered at public or semi-public events. Most people living in Australia who have attended an event will be familiar with a ‘welcome to Country’from the first peoples of the place where the event is being held. Sometimes that welcome is interpreted as a hollow ritual and an acknowledgement, such as the one I have just given, as equally hollow political correctness.
Such interpretations fundamentally miss the message offered in a welcome to Country, or the response proffered in an …
Scholar articles
L Porter - Australian geographer, 2018