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As this is @naidocweek, it should be a time for healing. For first nations finding more about your own family and traditional ties to country is one of the best ways you can do this. Follow this thread to see my journey. #NAIDOC2021 (1/21). 
Finding those ties is the best way to keep our culture alive, because even if you have three white grandparents, you still have one who is black. This is something that cannot be broken because those blood lines go back to the Dreaming.
I want to share with you some stories which I hope will inspire you to go on the same journey. These are stories of resilience, survival and ultimately triumph. A good place to start is, where were your grand-parents born? What were their names and clan-groups?
Amid all the fury unleashing online re St Josephs: the school does have Indigenous & rural students & if vaccinating the whole of Year 12 ("one in, all in") cured any vaccine hesitancy, then good. Any fury should be for NSW Health which "owns" Pfizer doses
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Would have thought - esp given #NAIDOC2021 - that one of Australia's better known private schools. going, in the best Marist pastoral tradition, to NSW Health for Covid jabs to protect their Indigenous students & these students' communities, would be an example worth praising
Sadly, social media, esp Australian political twitter, is dominated by the loudest, most broken, voices, nursing grievances from, inter alia, high school & university, and unable to attribute good faith to any activity.
BREAKING: The #NAIDOC2021 theme is: HEAL COUNTRY! – which calls for all of us to continue to seek greater protections for our lands, our waters, our sacred sites and our cultural heritage from exploitation, desecration, and destruction.
Country that is more than a place and inherent to our identity.
For generations we have been calling for stronger measures to recognise, protect, and maintain all aspects of our culture and heritage.
We are still waiting for those robust protections.
For generations we have been calling for stronger measures to recognise, protect, and maintain all aspects of our culture and heritage.
We are still waiting for those robust protections.
This year’s theme also seeks substantive institutional, structural, and collaborative reform – something generations of our Elders and communities have been advocating, marching and fighting for.
