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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.
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Today marks the beginning of the 46th annual NAIDOC Week, an annual occasion of remembrance and resistance that has evolved into a vibrant national celebration of our Communities, Cultures and Country, alongside our excellence and collective resilience and survival as custodians of the world’s oldest continuous living cultures.
As the Week nears its 50th birthday, it is surely time to recognise a more positive national day to celebrate and honour our First Peoples, for all Australians.
It is surely time to recognise a more positive national day than January 26 to celebrate and honour our First Peoples.
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