NAIDOC Week - A message from the Chairperson

Happy NAIDOC Week, you mob!

It’s always great to stop, pause, reflect, and celebrate this year’s theme: The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy.

Our Elders, our ancestors — they have paved the way forward for us. They have connected us to our Culture, our Country. Every day we find ourselves navigating colonised systems to continue the fight — to bring to life the vision our community holds. It takes energy and strength to have conversations in boardrooms, with politicians, in courts. This is how we create our legacy: by balancing these two worlds, by staying true to culture, connected to Country, and by getting comfortable in uncomfortable rooms.

Our future is bright. I reflect on how the corporation is leaving a lasting legacy:

• We have strengthened the governance of the corporation.

• We are having tough conversations in negotiation rooms, with government departments.

• Our Rangers are working alongside our Elders on Country, embracing technology to care for Country now and into the future.

• We are creating spaces for our mob to connect back to Country; our cultural camps grow year on year, and we are soon to open Arabana Warli.

I hope you all get out and amongst the celebrations this week! We are celebrating the future while forever honoring the past.

Stay deadly and proud.

Bronwyn Dodd, Chairperson, Arabana Aboriginal Corporation

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