Acknowledgment to Country – Past, Present, and Future

I would like to acknowledge the traditional landowners being the Woppaburra people past, present, and emerging.

I currently live, work and perform this website Silverflamze from a location on the Darumbal people’s land.  The Darumbal land district covers 10 000 kilometers squared.  This is known as most of the coastal and Central Queensland, Australia.

The Darumbal Woppaburra  people have a totem animal of the green tree frog and the plant of a water Lotus Lilly.

(Picture of Green tree frog and pink lotus lily with rainforest in background image AI bing)

My Connection

I grew up witnessing discrimination, violations, and shocking atrocities of hatred toward the indigenous people of this country.  Hearing firsthand from numerous people acts of terror and racism.  I remember when I was 5 years old and thinking to myself when there was any way I could help make a better life for the people I loved like family, I would do so.

I understood their connection to the land. To me everything in the indigenous culture made sense.  In a nation of peace, caring for the land for over 65 000 years before colonization. I empathized with their misery of being torn from their country.

Wherever I could and can represent the injustices I would act accordingly to argue the violations.

” Always was and always will be Aboriginal Land”

This quote from NAIDOC week reconciliations celebration resonates with how I feel when I walk and breathe in this land.

Remembering the terrible history that happened not so long ago and the atrocities that still happen today to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia.

I advocate for justice and human rights

Why do I feel so passionately about justice?  Because I know that when one act of misuse of power is combined with hatred and disrespect to another person’s human rights.  Is one act against the whole human race!

Injustice anywhere must be brought to the service of the United Nations.  That is the reason for the unity of nations all enforcing  human rights for the world to be a better place for everyone.

I will always step forward and advocate.

My Goal to End Poverty in Indigenous Communities

In Australia, there are communities in regions that were organized by the Churches that came with the colonization here.

They drove Aboriginal people to live away on the outskirts of the townships the colonies were forming.  Driven out of their land by brutal force and murder.

These communities still today have large populations of indigenous people residing there.  There is no work and often medical treatment is limited. The local shops are high priced for basic food supplies and again limited in quantity.

The battle against this poor standard of living for the people living in these communities is a disgrace to the government of Australia.  The public need to acknowledge the sovereignty of this land and treat the first nation, people with respect, dignity and realize a treaty was never made.

My goal is to raise ongoing awareness of the injustices of the first nation people, plus create opportunities for the traditional owners to get back to the country. I do believe that the Indigenous know instinctively what it means to be connected to the land.  They have their own ability to be self-sufficient in the country and traditionally do not need importing of goods like the Europeans.  Everything was and can be found in their natural environment and they lived peacefully with Gondwana  land for over 60 000 years.

Thanks for letting me share my feelings and I truly know there is a way for healing when acknowledgement is found first and accepting that generational trauma is a real  and current in  many of the traditional people lives.

Lets bring peace to their hearts and souls and to this amazing country Gondwana Land.

If you ever need a hand or have any questions, feel free to leave them below and I will be more than happy to help you out.

All the best,

Erica Golding