Seeking Equivalency In the past two decades we have observed an immense growth of First Nations protocols in public life. In 2008, we saw the opening of federal parliament begin with a traditional Welcome to Country and now we see acknowledgements of Country at the beginning of meetings, public rallies and the landing of aircrafts. This is an amazing turnaround for a country that found it impossible to write First Nations Australians into the constitution and that continually engaged in the systemic neglect of our sovereignty. Though we have a chance to address some of these issues in the upcoming […]