Acknowledgement
We pay our respects to the custodians and knowledge keepers of the lands we live, learn and work on here in Naarm, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation. We extend that respect to the custodians of the lands across which our staff and students travel and connect, and to the First Nations folk in the Collarts community.
We honour this continent’s first creatives, musicians, artists and designers – 75,000 years of unbroken storytelling – and the continuity of Indigenous cultural brilliance in which our work finds an anchor.
We stand as active allies in support of the Uluru Statement from the Heart: voice, treaty and truth. This land was never ceded. It always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
May our footsteps be gentle.
NAIDOC Artwork Credit: Samuawgadhalgal artist Deb Belyea