Indigenous cricket star Ash Gardner has slammed Australia Day as celebrating the beginning of genocide as she prepares to play on the controversial holiday.
Published May 27, 2021
After the conversations around the systemic injustice towards our First Nations Australians, events need to do a much better job at recognising and spotlighting our Indigenous creatives. Cut to this year’s Afterpay Australian Fashion Week which is not only being held on the same week as National Reconciliation Week but opens with the event’s first welcome to country performance by First Nations designer
Grace Lillian Lee.
“Our practices and native landscapes have served as a great source of inspiration. Our people and our land continue to contribute to the growth and development of this nation,” Lee said in a statement.