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‘Slowly, slowly, things have changed, but not perhaps as quickly as we had assumed they would.’ Photograph: Daniel Boud “There was a lot of pioneering work.” This is how Rhoda Roberts, producer, arts executive and Widjabul Wiyebal woman from the Bundjalung nation, describes being the first person to take on the role of head of First Nations programming at the Sydney Opera House back in 2012. It’s a description freighted with historical irony. The internationally famous arts centre’s sails perch on Gadigal land at a traditional meeting place that looks nothing like it did prior to the arrival of the English. The “pioneering work” Roberts has done there is, at least partly, about undoing that

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