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Welcome To Country

Heritage Perth is proud to offer this Welcome to Country.

 

 

Heritage Perth wants students to:

  • Acknowledge and recognise that the region, now known as Perth, was home for the Whadjuk Noongyar people before European settlement
  • Recognise that despite its built environment, Perth sits within a landscape that has been the home to Noongyar people for over 40 000 years
  • Recognise and respect Aboriginal people as the world’s oldest continuous living culture
  • Recognise that all people (especially Aboriginal people) have cultures and traditions that are valued today as they were in the past
  • Value the connectedness between country, place, people and culture as this creates a sense of identity
  • Recognise there are diversity and similarities in all peoples and that reconciliation is achieved through empathy and respect
  • View the changing landscape of Perth – built, natural and Indigenous – as part of an ever-changing process that began long before European settlement.