Anonymous 1327
A non-Indigenous person in their 50s, highlights the historical and ongoing injustices faced by Aboriginal people, including the continuing dispossession of Country and disrupture of language, culture and their ways of knowing, being and doing. They believe the truth will always prevail and that these lands will always be Aboriginal.
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