{"id":190483,"date":"2025-03-25T09:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T23:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=190483"},"modified":"2025-03-25T09:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T23:44:21","slug":"a-young-indigenous-woman-has-made-a-bold-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=190483","title":{"rendered":"A young Indigenous woman has made a bold call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kiesha Jamieson wants \u2018Acknowledgements of Country\u2019 scrapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She says \u201cit is a made up protocol.” Listen to her full comments HERE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/ben-fordham-full-show\/made-up-indigenous-woman-rubbishes-acknowledgme<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s being used for politics, creating division. I\u2019m all for celebrating and supporting aboriginal culture, but in a way that is enjoyable, not being made to feel like imposters in the land we were born in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only use of smoke by tribes that I have read was for preparing girls for marriage to men, or to keep mosquitos at bay when resting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indigenous entertainers Ernie Dingo and Richard Whalley, of the Middar Aboriginal Theatre, claim to have invented the \u201cwelcome to country\u201d in 1976 because two pairs of Maori visitors from NZ and the Cook Islands wanted an equivalent of their own traditional ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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