Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 The Promise of an Australian Homecoming : What Would Make an Acknowledgement of Country More Welcome
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'There is an uncritical but flawed assumption that Aboriginal people are unquestionably Australian republicans. Professor Marcia Langton, responding to republican ridicule of the pomp and circumstance of the British royal family, pointed out that many Aboriginal people in fact have deep respect for the ceremony of the Crown, because our culture understands the power of ritual and symbolism. Such customary protocols speak to the conservatism of culture – it is slow to change − but provide continuity between the past and the present. Today in Australia, an ancient cultural practice relating to the regulation of strangers on country, born of recognition, relatedness and reciprocity, has become a welcoming convention for the nation.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon The Monthly no. 168 July 2020 19661160 2020 periodical issue 2020 pg. 8-11
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