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Our students were generously welcomed to Country by Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder Uncle Bill Nicholson and invited
to take part in a smoking ceremony in February 2024. Smoking ceremonies have been performed by Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people for thousands of years to cleanse people and places of bad spirits and to treat sickness.
Photograph, Geoff Bartlett
The Council, staff, and students of Janet Clarke Hall acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which
we are privileged to live, learn, dream, and grow. The Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation are part of the richest
and oldest continuing culture in the world, and we have much to learn from their deep care for Country, culture, and
community. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging, and through respectful relationships we will
work for the mutual flourishing of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. We commit ourselves in thought and deed to
this land and all its people, seeking truth, reconciliation, unity, and equity.
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