Dr Vicki Couzens, Keerray Woorroong Gunditjmara, shares the importance of Country and the impact of severing that connection on First Peoples.
"Your name, your kinship, your totems, your clans tell you who you are. They tell you how you are related to each other, including the place or the tree or the bird or the animal, fish, bird, insect, grass, everything, and how you are in relationship, so no one is left out. And to be removed from Country is to have all those things threatened."
Dr Vicki Couzens, Keerray Woorroong Gunditjmara, shares the importance of Country and the impact of severing that connection on First Peoples.
We can't change the truth of our past, but by accepting and understanding it, we can walk together to a better shared future. For First Peoples and for all Victorians.
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