This is the best summary I could come up with:
Senator Nampijinpa Price told The Australian on Monday that she believes welcome to country ceremonies at sporting events and public gatherings were “definitely divisive”.
“There is no problem with acknowledging our history, but rolling out these performances before every sporting event or public gathering is definitely divisive,” Senator Nampijinpa Price told The Australian.
Marcus Stewart, from the Uluru Dialogue, said he believed Senator Nampijinpa Price was deliberately spreading misinformation as part of her campaign against an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
Welcome to country ceremonies have become more common as part of public events in recent times, but according to Reconciliation Australia the protocols have existed for thousands of years.
Senator Nampijinpa Price’s comments follow Nationals leader David Littleproud revealing a split in the Coalition over Indigenous affairs policy going into the next election, after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton proposed symbolic constitutional recognition alongside legislated local and regional advisory bodies for Indigenous Australians.
Mr Stewart said a lack of consensus from the Coalition on Indigenous affairs policy would only delay progress for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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Mountaineer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I don’t think they’re divisive as such, I’m not friends with anyone who would have problems with acknowledging that the land we are on was once XYZ tribe land.
But everyone is annoyed with the rote recital of stuff like this:
“City of Adelaide acknowledges that we are meeting on the traditional Country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and pays respect to Elders past and present. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land.”
We don’t start every meeting with “God Bless the King”.
We don’t start every interaction with a reminder “I’d like to acknowledge that this office and the building within which it resides remains the property of Peregrine Corporation.”
It’s become rote noise.
At the start of a large public event, where an MC is introducing speakers or the AFL grand final is about to kick off, it makes a lot more sense.
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Up until recently, a lot of councils in Victoria started their meetings with the Lord’s Prayer.
Mountaineer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Sounds like that’s a fixed problem then.
I wonder if the Scouts still recite it before every meeting?