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Thursday, March 27th, 2008 11:51 am (UTC)
That's a very good point.

I mean I'd heard about "Welcome to Country"s before and assumed they'd be all fuzzy feel good folklore and dancing, but it was just this guy in regular clothes giving a powerful speech about the historical and personal context. Which made sense for a medical conference (he and the indigenous medical researcher who had a talk later both had a lot to say about death as a constant in aboriginal life) but I'm not sure they'd feel like they'd have a lot to discuss with a bunch of sff nerds.

But you know, maybe they would, it's not like I'm supremely qualified to talk about the interests and goals of indigenous australians. Something I think might be an idea is acknowledging the traditional owners, if nothing else it's no inconvenience to anyone.

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