A warm welcome to everyone gathered here today at this wonderful event in our beautiful city of Canberra. I offer you all my most grateful welcome as I also like to extend my respects to my Whadjuk brothers and sisters from my people, the Whadjuk Noongars.
Racial Discrimination. Imagine living your every day knowing that everywhere you go, everything you do is being observed and judged. Imagine going to the playground with peaceful intentions but having people moving their kids away from you thinking that you would hurt them? Being someone who has to …show more content…
Maybe “young” but my people are far away from “freedom” as we die 10 years earlier than other average Australians. An Indigenous child is more likely to be locked up in prison than they are to finish high school. Is that the “rejoice” and “freedom, “a fair go?” Are you sure?
“We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil?” The soil my ancestors, brothers, sisters and my people were killed upon?
We were seen as “savages” and “animals” as the British ignored our rights and snatched our home away from us. Our people, families, children and 70,000 years of what our ancestors had worked so hard for, completely destroyed as they stole everything from us. Telling us where we could live, who we could marry, taking our children, our privacy and our pride. We weren't counted as the people of our country, just merely the flora and fauna of our land.
I know that we are better than this. We live in the great nation of Australia. Racism may be destroying our dreams and our freedom but we can change