Iwould like to acknowledge country, wherever you are listening to these words, and pay respects to the Elders who have kept culture and story strong. This protocol is an inclusive moment to reflect on 65,000 plus years of innovation, sustainability, creativity and story. It reminds us that we are an old country even if some people might describe Australia as a relatively new nation and asks us not just to acknowledge the past but to look to the future to ask ourselves, what is our role, what is our place, in this ongoing story?

I knew I wanted to become a lawyer as a teenager. As the daughter of an Aboriginal father and a mother who had to leave a job she loved in the armed services when she married — as was the rule of the time — I grew up in a household full of conversations and books t

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