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What is means to Heal Country
Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver reflects on the significance of this year’s NAIDOC Week theme, Heal Country, for protecting the unique and dynamic environments, sacred sites and cultures of First Nation Peoples across Australia.
What is the significance of this year’s NAIDOC Week theme?
Country plays an integral part of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and knowledges. Country isn’t just a physical environment or place – it is intrinsic to our identity and is core to who we are. There is no part of our lives where Country is not held in prominence – from the guidance we get from it spiritually to every physical, emotional, social, and cultural component of our lives.
Guests: Uncle Dave Williams, Lee-Ann Buckskin, Professor Lisa Jackson-Pulver, Wesley Enoch, Katrina Sedgwick
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