Question: How do you recognise Aboriginal traditional ownership of this land?
Answer: Observe the Aboriginal protocol as closely as you can.
Here in Whadjuk sovereign lands 200 years ago that meant you would…
- ask the elders‘ consent to be here,
- carry a message stick (or equivalent) from the elders,
- look after the land properly
This site hopes to enable you to observe such a protocol, or at least get close to it. Would you like to do that? Look around these pages to get the basic info.
This site also tells a story of Consent:
- The First British Commissioned officers’ orders were to ask for consent to be here – to make a Treaty
- These officers failed to ask consent or to make Treaty
- To date, no consent was ever asked, or given.
- Some of us dream of a Consent Ceremony to redress this: to ask consent, and for the rightful Aboriginal Owners of this land to give consent
- We are hoping to develop a way for all residents to observe & respect the right protocol.