Author's note: Here in Australia we are always living and walking on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land surrounded by the Waters of these same Aboriginal and Islander people.
Where I live in Brunswick East, the land belongs to the Wurundjeriwillam clan of the Woiworung language group of the Kulin Nation. I hereby pay my respect to and recognise these Indigenous peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of the land I live on. I acknowledge their sovereignty and their inalienable right of self determination.