If NAIDOC and of the Australian Catholic Church are to achieve their goals time and patience will be required. Yet both show signs of justifiable impatience. This year the theme of NAIDOC Week is Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! Its tone is urgent, expressing frustration at the resistance to change but also the recognition that new possibilities have opened. By Andrew Hamilton
The Werrpanakata Fish Park in Brown Park, Deniliquin was officially opened on Wednesday, after the installation of a locally built and created mural and covered outd.
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According to AGL’s own news site, the artworks were designed to reflect how Country is inherent to identity and sustains all aspects of our lives; spiritually, physically, emotionally, socially and culturally. This is all fine and good except for the fact that AGL has completely missed the point of Heal Country.
Heal Country is about respecting First Nations’ peoples uniquely deep connection to our country and land. It is about recognising how the ongoing colonisation of this continent impacts First Nations peoples sacred lands and reflecting on ways to heal the damage being made.
This damage includes harm caused by companies and corporations. This NAIDOC week is about everyone reflecting on what was taken from First Nations peoples and what must be done to set things right.