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By TOM GANNON
Employees from AGL’s Loy Yang A power station came together last Friday to unveil a collection of artworks by local Aboriginal youths on display at the station for NAIDOC Week.
In line with this year’s NAIDOC Week theme ‘Heal Country!’ the artworks were designed by members of the Latrobe Youth Space to reflect how country is inherent to identity and sustains all aspects of our lives including spiritually, physically, emotionally, socially and culturally.
More than 40 Loy Yang employees attended the event which included a Welcome to Country by Gunaikurnai elder Uncle Lloyd Hood, a smoking ceremony and the raising of the Australian, Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal flags.
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.
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Un homme filme les vagues qui frappent samedi les côtes de la République dominicaine.
(Port-Au-Prince) La tempête tropicale Elsa a frappé samedi les côtes sud d’Haïti et de la République dominicaine, abattant des arbres et soufflant des toits alors qu’elle traversait les Caraïbes, tuant au moins trois personnes. Publié le 3 juillet 2021 à 8h10 Mis à jour à 23h34 ✓ Lien copié Associated Press
En fin de soirée, l’épicentre de la tempête était à environ 280 kilomètres à l’est-sud-est de Montego Bay, en Jamaïque, et filait vers l’ouest-nord-ouest à 28 km/h.