These lands were not new land in darkness, home to nothing and no one. The peoples that were there before the colonisers/invaders arrived were not flora and fauna. As a proud Boandik man this is a correction in historical thinking that I could get behind. A loving and merciful God hears the cries of His people who are under oppression by a foreign empire and uses the elements of His creation to show the love and compassion He has for His people and the lengths that He will go to give bring them out of captivity and back into their own sovereignty. This has been, and continues to be, the cry of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples since colonisation. Amen 36
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