Comments | spally: My country, your country: Thought 1

spally

My country, your country: Thought 1

Jul 10, 2010 22:36

Indigenous Australians as a community have not been treated well since other people started settling here ( Read more... )

indigenous australians, series: my country your country

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tibbycat July 10 2010, 12:58:27 UTC

As a 1/16th Aboriginal.... um, I would like to say, welcome to Australia.

spally July 10 2010, 13:09:52 UTC

I didn't know you were an elder! :P

tibbycat July 10 2010, 13:20:09 UTC

sure I am, heh :s

touché

etimodnar July 10 2010, 15:06:00 UTC

I hadn't heard of being welcome to country. It sounds like an odd phrase. I'm familiar with recognising the original land owners (happens at the first lecture of every unit every semester at Murdoch).

What kind of situation would warrant it?

etimodnar July 10 2010, 23:35:34 UTC

I think for churches (evangelical or whatever) an acknowledgement of country would be more appropriate than a welcome to country.

Matt

spally July 11 2010, 00:25:52 UTC

What about big, one-off christian gatherings? Like synod, or NTE, or KCC conferences, or Summer School?

etimodnar July 11 2010, 03:02:51 UTC

Again, I would go with an acknowledgement of country than a welcome to country (as I've argued elsewhere).

Given what a Welcome to Country is (recognition of the ancestral spirits who created the boundaries and lands) in would be incompatible with synod, or NTE, or KCC conferences, or Summer School.

- Matt

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anonymous July 11 2010, 03:03:52 UTC

Given what a Welcome to Country is (recognition of the ancestral spirits who created the boundaries and lands) in would be incompatible with synod, or NTE, or KCC conferences, or Summer School.

- Matt