Anonymous 1190
Anonymous 1190 describes country as culture, Lore, knowledge, and life, highlighting the loss of rights and access to live with country. They advocate for Aboriginal people to be freely given land, including Traditional custodians, to support health and healing from the trauma of stolen land. They suggest changes to laws and policies in banking, finance, and real estate to facilitate this.
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Country is culture, Lore, knowledge and life, according to our ancestral ways of knowing, being, doing, caring for country. Looking after all living and non living things. This is common to all Aboriginal people, regardless of mob or origin.
Loss if rights and access to live with country.
Aboriginal People who are in the process of buying their home/lamd with home/lamd for a home, should be wholey and freely given this. This includes all Traditional custodians and All Aboriginal Victorians, in solidarity. There may have to be some limits and Traditional custodians will always have rights to public and more lands to manage as they can. This does not limit traditional custodians land ownership as they are the traditional “owners of land and should be given as much public and other land to manage as practicable. There may be guidelines such as $/post code, land size of 40hectares etc. This takes banks out of the trauma of living freely on country to support our health and healing from trauma of stolen land.
Aboriginal People who are in the process of buying their home/lamd with home/lamd for a home, should be wholey and freely given this. This includes all Traditional custodians and All Aboriginal Victorians, in solidarity. There may have to be some limits and Traditional custodians will always have rights to public and more lands to manage as they can. This does not limit traditional custodians land ownership as they are the traditional “owners of land and should be given as much public and other land to manage as practicable. There may be guidelines such as $/post code, land size of 40hectares etc. This takes banks out of the trauma of living freely on country to support our health and healing from trauma of stolen land. Laws and policy effected includes banking, finance, realestate etc.
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