FIRST NATIONS FIRST

Jackie Steel, Coburg North, VIC

This month’s poster was fascinating and I enjoyed reading it. I do believe though that the time has come to stop glorifying some historic moments: European settlers didn’t discover any place in Australia and were unlikely to have been the first people to cross the Blue Mountains or even the continent. Similarly, no European is likely to have discovered a plant or animal that the first nations were not already familiar with. The knowledge of Australia’s traditional owners is undervalued by the importance placed on European explorers. If only they’d asked more questions instead of treating our country like an unknown land needing ‘discovery’.…

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Australian Geographic (Digital) - 1 Issue, July/August 2019

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