As an Aboriginal child I had to listen in class while taught Captain Cook 'discovered' Australia | Hayley McQuire

For Indigenous people, education has been used as a tool of colonisation

Thinking generationally means thinking beyond the next election cycle and making the decisions that will build create a better world for our great grandchildren to inherit.

I see this photo of my grandmother holding my daughter. I think it’s incredible that my grandmother who was born in 1939 was able to share time, space and stories with her own great grand-daughter. She’s literally able to hold the future in the hands.

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