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It’s been more than three months since extremists brought their race hate to Yaraan Couzens-Bundle’s community at Gariwerd, or the Grampians, in regional Victoria. She still feels unsettled by the incident, as she undertakes a cleansing ritual of white ochre to help heal and protect the sacred land. Over the January 26 long weekend, a group of up to 30 balaclava-clad men gathered at the Gariwerd and chanted white power slogans while burning a cross. The land, 230km north-west of Melbourne, is a centre of cultural and spiritual significance, and has been a gathering place for mob for millennia. “This is our church, this is our sacred place,” says Ms Bundle, a Gunditjimara, Yuin and Bidjara woman who lives on Djab Wurrung country in Halls Gap. ....
Acknowledgement of Country 19 Jan, 2021 More Australian producers are working to acknowledge the traditional Indigenous owners of their sites on wine labels. But opinion is divided on whether this is the way forward. Acknowledgement of Country can be given by anyone and recognises the traditional Aboriginal owners and ongoing custodians of the land. Since being adopted at government events in the early 2000s, these official acknowledgements have gained a growing acceptance in the wider community, with wine producers among those warming to its use. There is a connection, if not a compatibility, between the act and an industry that depends on farming, tradition and history to sustain it. That relationship is a deep and resonating force in the vineyard throughout the year, culminating with harvest. ....