Grounded in Truth Walk Together with Courage

This year’s theme aims to foster positive race relations, acknowledging the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the broader community must be grounded in a foundation of truth.

Whether you’re engaging in challenging conversations or unlearning and relearning what you know, this journey requires all of us to walk together with courage.

The world has changed our knowledge has changed, the ‘truth’ that we were taught has changed.

For us all to grow together as a community it’s time relearn the past.

If you haven’t read the award winning Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe, it is capable of

generating a profound shift in understanding from what many of us were taught. Dark Emu provides an opportunity to appreciate the complex culture of our first nation people.

“Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians, it allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived — a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an understanding of the environment and its natural resources that supported thriving villages across the continent”. In June, Young Dark Emu- A Truer History will be published for young readers. (Booktopia)