‘We’re mobilising’: Indigenous Australians speak of treaty and independence as change the date and failed voice referendum fade
‘This day we mourn everything that has happened and what is still happening’, says one Wiradjuri man
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The smell of smouldering gum leaves swirls through the air as Wiradjuri man Neenan Simpson blows it towards the thousands that have gathered in Sydney’s Belmore park.
“This day we mourn everything that has happened and what is still happening,” he said, with the smoking mound now sitting at his feet, moving with the wind.
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