Although one truth is certain on this day: whatever we may be doing, we’ll be doing it on someone’s Country. So why not reflect on the truth that is Country, and ask yourself the following question:That was a question asked to me once, by a non-Indigenous lecturer I favoured at university. When asked correctly, it’s a question that transcends the difference in our identities, and leans on our universal responsibility as human beings.
To this day, the name of my sister’s birthplace remains the same, due to heavy resistance from the villagers. My Grandmother always spoke about the Myall Creek Massacre and other mass killings on our Country. She spoke about them in a disturbed manner, one that I cannot forget. I came to know the stories by listening deeply because they were spoken only softly, as if they were secrets.I was raised further south, on Yuin Country.
Australian nationhood has been carefully built. We often herald historic monuments, figures and moments. Anchoring the battler across the timeline of Aussie iconography, referencing back as if it were religion. We guard this curated ‘truth’ so ferociously that we attack any who should challenge the skin tone of the Man From Snowy River, or suggest we should change the date of Australia Day.Here’s an Indigenous perspective I invite everyone to sit with:
I'll have the Asian babe thanks I'm western.
Stick to news and stop with unwanted agenda narrative , guess shouldn't expect anthing less from a digital MSM 🖕
Just report the news. Get getting sick of your writers preaching to us about politics and Covid.
Stop pushing this agenda , your own poll shows your readers don't support it.
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