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Australia Post celebrates NAIDOC Week with traditional place names on new satchels
Australia Post is marking 2021 NAIDOC Week and its theme, “Heal Country!” by launching new packaging that includes a dedicated space for the inclusion of Traditional Place names for customers who wish to recognise traditional Country on their mail.
The organisation is also reflecting its ongoing commitment to celebrating First Nations culture by wrapping a number of its Street Posting Boxes in Indigenous artwork with a design created by Darwin’s Marcus Lee of the Karajarri People.
Australia Post’s National Indigenous Manager and Noongar man Chris Heelan said the move to provide room for Traditional Place names on satchels comes after being approached by First Nations Gomeroi woman Rachael McPhail, and has come about as a direct result of customer feedback.
Published July 5, 2021
Australia Post has released a new line of envelopes which have a space specifically for traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander place names. The move comes in response to years of campaigning, and also marks the start of NAIDOC Week 2021 with the theme: “Heal Country!”
On these new envelopes, there’s space to write names like Naarm or Gadigal Country, for example, on top of the street address. These names have been in use for tens of thousands of years before a bunch of British colonisers with scurvy rocked up in 1788 and decided to rename those areas as things like Melbourne and Sydney, respectively.