As we come to the end of National Reconciliation Week we want to encourage all in our netball community to keep talking, keep educating and let’s keep moving forward together.
June 3rd is Mabo Day and commemorates the courageous efforts of Eddie Koiki Mabo to overturn the legal concept that Australia and the Torres Strait Islands were not owned by Indigenous peoples. On 3 June 1992, the High Court of Australia decided that terra nullius should not have been applied to Australia. This decision – known as the Mabo decision – recognized that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have rights to the land – rights that existed before the British arrived and can still exist today.
To Learn more:
Shahni Wellington a descendant of the Jerrinja people from the south coast of New South Wales and a member of CNA Senior State League Div 2 team, shares her insights on reconciliation week and some ways we can all join together in remembering this week because “we are all in this together”.
Jes from our Senior State League team has a great message for us :
