Anyone in Australia can deliver an acknowledgement of country to pay respect to the traditional custodians of the land they’re meeting on but how can you deliver one that goes beyond a generic script? Yamatji man Rhys Paddick travels Australia delivering workshops.
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00:00 (soft music)
00:02 - I would like to acknowledge
00:04 the original custodians of our land,
00:06 the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation
00:08 and pay my respects to the elders, both past and present.
00:11 - There's a growing movement for us to improve the way
00:15 we deliver an acknowledgement of country.
00:18 - There's a lot of people today
00:19 consider it as like housekeeping.
00:22 You know, like it's a thing that we have to do
00:24 at the beginning of a thing or at the bottom of an email
00:27 to show our respect.
00:28 - Rhys Paddock co-founded Acknowledge This
00:31 and is traveling the country
00:33 delivering Acknowledgement of Country workshops.
00:36 - Acknowledge This aspires to help people connect
00:39 to the concepts that lie behind the words
00:42 when delivering an acknowledgement of country.
00:44 - We touch the ground of the Wongol land.
00:53 We reach for the sky of the Wongol land.
00:56 (upbeat music)
00:58 [BLANK_AUDIO]