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Thread #101955 Message #2061993
Posted By: hilda fish
27-May-07 - 05:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Australian Aborgines=Special Day
Subject: RE: BS: Australian Aborgines=Special Day
No worries Azizi and thanx. Saw Aunty Joycie Clague on tv last night - one of the first Indigenous people to sign the petition. It was lovely to see her. Also saw Paul Kelly, Troy Cassar Daly and Uncle Kev Carmody perform "From Little Things Big Things Grow" with Leah Purcell joining in chorus. My heart was full as they remembered the amazing Vincent Lingiari who led the walk off Wave Hill. It has been a day of tears and laughter and I have a whole week and more of events still to get through! It is a momentous time remembering those days and how it was for us, and it is momentous as a way to push forward discussion - and action - on reconciliation in this country of ours. It would be a terrible thing if all my people who died for us met their grandchildren and great grandchildren in the hereafter and they said "nothings changed". I think of my mother and my grandmother who lived and died without hope and I think of my children living and those future generations yet unborn who will have hope and dreams. Important to remember the fight is not over by a long shot and it will take courage and will to continue. That both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people got together as partners to make the change then, and that reconciliation has the same possibility is vital to our future as a nation that lives equality.