Indigenous leader Warren Mundine has called for unity after a Welcome to Country ceremony prior to a sporting match last week was met with fiery criticism.
Indigenous leader Warren Mundine has criticised the"very divisive" Welcome to Country ceremony performed at an AFL match last week while calling Pauline Hanson ’s response a “step too far”.
“Welcome to country is not a ceremony we’ve invented to cater for white people, it’s a ceremony we’ve been doing for 250,000 years plus BC, and the BC stands for Before Cook,” Kerin said before the AFL match. Later, in an interview with NITV on Friday, Kerin hit back at the criticism he received after his Welcome to Country ceremony, calling it “absolute stupidity” and “ignorance” which he “expected” to receive.
Mr Mundine said Welcome to Country was a “beautiful idea” but it had started to turn into a “very divisive political push”.
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