Macleay Public Schools Reconciliation Walk | May 29, 2024 | Macleay Argus - video Dailymotion

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Public school students from the Macleay Valley gathered to take part in this year's school Reconciliation Week walk. Students, staff, members of the community and Elders walked together on Wednesday, May 29.

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00:00 [CHATTER]

00:14 It's important because we need to know our culture

00:17 and about ourselves, because today is all about Aboriginal,

00:22 because back then white people didn't care or did anything

00:26 about that.

00:27 So today is an important day for Aboriginals,

00:31 because we get to share how we are or how we act.

00:34 It's really nice to do this.

00:37 So it's really good for Aboriginals

00:40 to show white people how it is and how they

00:43 have to deal with back then.

00:44 So it's really good today, because it's really

00:47 nice to see.

00:48 [CHATTER]

00:57 I think the most important thing is the coming together

01:03 of Guri people and Gubba people, white and black people,

01:10 particularly in this valley where historically relationships

01:15 have not been all that good.

01:18 But things started to change back in the late '60s

01:23 after the referendum and so on.

01:25 But yeah, education-- I'm seeing all these kids

01:31 here today, black and white, or Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal

01:35 kids, come together in friendship

01:38 and interacting with one another.

01:41 That's what reconsideration is about, moving together as one,

01:46 not as two separate groups.

01:48 And it's just great to see that.

01:51 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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