Thank you for this beautiful journey to set the gums of SEQueensland. Wonderful to encounter them through fresh eyes.
What you write about contemporary Australian denying and dishonouring First actions people and histories is so true . Coming* here to live from Aotearoa many years ago I too found it difficult to know where to start to respond to such a cruel history of colonisation, but slowly through listening, reading and learning from First Nations people here I am finding my way to acknowledge and pay respects to the oldest living culture in the world, while becoming more informed about the truth of what has happened here in the last 250 years. There is much we can learn here from Aotearoa’s fostering of biculturalism and on going Treaty negotiations . Very sad to see attacks on this from new Govt in Aotearoa, hopefully this will be short lived as so many Kiwis of all cultural backgrounds greatly value Māoritanga.
Thank you for this beautiful journey to set the gums of SEQueensland. Wonderful to encounter them through fresh eyes.
What you write about contemporary Australian denying and dishonouring First actions people and histories is so true . Coming* here to live from Aotearoa many years ago I too found it difficult to know where to start to respond to such a cruel history of colonisation, but slowly through listening, reading and learning from First Nations people here I am finding my way to acknowledge and pay respects to the oldest living culture in the world, while becoming more informed about the truth of what has happened here in the last 250 years. There is much we can learn here from Aotearoa’s fostering of biculturalism and on going Treaty negotiations . Very sad to see attacks on this from new Govt in Aotearoa, hopefully this will be short lived as so many Kiwis of all cultural backgrounds greatly value Māoritanga.