Reconciliation 2020
Associate Professor Anne Poelina delivered the Reconciliation Lecture titled Martuwarra First Law Justice:
Land, Living Waters and Indigenous Peoples’ Wellbeing on the 11th November 2020.
“… Aunty Anne continued, "For the first time since the global recognition forty years ago of the ‘Noonkanbah Strike’ on my grandmother’s Country, we have come together once more, for the greater good of our River Country. 2016 birthed the “Dream” of standing united through a Fitzroy River Declaration to promote and protect our sacred ancestral serpent being the Martuwarra, Fitzroy River. Through this dream we continued the talking and sharing... "
The Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council position remains to work with government in the stewardship of our planet’s greatest and most scarce resource, water. After 150 years of invasive development, it is time to do business differently, on just terms. The Martuwarra, Fitzroy River as a living ancestral serpent being, has the right to live and flow.
First Law Justice is the Indigenous spirit of connection, harmony, balance, and peace.”
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