The author argues for a more thoughtful approach to Welcomes to Country, suggesting that blanket implementation at every event may diminish their significance. They criticize the polarization and simplistic rhetoric surrounding this issue, calling for a mature and nuanced discussion.
They are doing away with Welcomes to Country. They are engaging with Indigenous communities to consider the way in which they recognise Indigenous people and culture at home games. Quite specifically, they have said they will keep the ceremonies at culturally significant celebrations.
So, let’s just be clear – we have an entity that is still committed to performing these ceremonies at certain events and is working collaboratively with Indigenous groups as to how it recognises Indigenous culture and people. And the punishment for that sin? Being brandished as an oppressive force in the demotion of Indigenous recognition. Indigenous dancers perform during the Welcome to Country before a Melbourne Storm-Cronulla Sharks match.This kind of response is a perfect demonstration of what saddens me so much about our current condition – that, at least in the public arena, many people have lost the ability to think and speak rationally about these issues. The loudest voices seem totally incapable of nuance: if you are not willing to wholeheartedly implement a Welcome to Country at every occasion, not willing to move heaven and earth to make sure Indigenous culture is front and centre of your events, you are on the side of the oppressor; you hate Indigenous Australians – you’re a racist. It’s infantile and a nation cannot function properly or hope to be strong with that as its foundational rhetoric. See, one of the markers of maturity as we transition from adolescence to adulthood is our ability to recognise areas of grey where they exist – to appreciate that a problem or solution may not be black and white.When it comes to Welcomes to, and Acknowledgments of, Country, I wonder if the answer is not black and white. Perhaps these ceremonies are not to be done away with altogether, nor are they to be performed in every setting. Perhaps the grey teaches us that their legitimacy and significance are most clearly borne out when we limit their proliferatio
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