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- Yaama.

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Imagine yourself 234 years ago,

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just before the 11 boats

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full of convicts and Redcoats

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arrived on the east coast of Australia.

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Now go back even further

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to the Dreamtime, the Burrugu,

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when my people had their first fire

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and took their first footsteps.

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Now, let's move to 2021
and you run my country,

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Kamilaroi country.

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And think about my people's loss.

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We have lost our knowledge,

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our values,

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our spirituality, our language.

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And that knowledge that I mentioned,

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was knowledge that was seen as myth.

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Now, what I'm proposing is to promote

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and celebrate that knowledge

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through an opportunity,

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as I invite you to come sit
at my fire, at my circle,

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to listen to Kamilaroi methodology,

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of our way of knowing and being,

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what it is to be Kamilaroi.

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At that fire, it's your
opportunity to listen,

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and think about the 233 years of -

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- of loss, let's say,

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and destruction.

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And what I want is that opportunity

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for you to sit at that
fire with your credit card

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and build, in partnership, a way forward.

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I'm just one little fella, at
my fire, help a brother out.

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(gentle music)