Juru spokesperson Randall Ross told 4BC Mornings 'the elders have ... The modern form of a Welcome to Country was developed in 1976 by Dr Richard Walley's Middar Aboriginal Theatre group, after ...

An Indigenous elder led a Welcome to Country ceremony at an AFL match just days before he pleaded guilty to violently attacking his partner with an Aboriginal foraging tool in an alcohol-fuelled rage.

Welcome to Country ceremonies attracted considerable negativity in September when Aboriginal elder, Uncle Brendan Kerin, before a GWS v Brisbane semi-final in Sydney, told the crowd ...

Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman The Albanese government has sought to “demonstrate respect” to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities through the Welcome to Country ceremonies.

including both Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous as well,” he said. Despite this, he said the Juru elders were planning to bring back Welcome to Country ceremonies in a more ...

“The elders have had enough,’’ Mr ... I grew up with Aboriginal people, I befriended Aboriginal people and that Welcome to Country stuff is all pure bullshit,” Cr Pickering said at the ...

Welcome to Country ceremonies have drawn some negative reactions in recent times, most notably that delivered by Aboriginal elder Uncle Brendan Kerin prior to the GWS v Brisbane semi-final at ...