Peter Rogers

I attended the NAIDOC Week official opening on July 5 at the Albany Town Hall. There was a beautiful coloured symbol on the back wall, celebrating 50 years of NAIDOC Week. The crowd was not large, a mixture of different cultures, young and old. The Indigenous elders and leaders spoke well. I enjoyed the way they spoke about country and the land: truly. They just embrace it with great emotions, they feel it. The leader of the dance group spoke of the meaning of the different dances.

I thought it was the people’s government? Were we not the ones who voted? Interesting in the Premier’s vision, we have an article of the turning off of the gas. I wonder what his vision is on that? No one seems to be writing about the health issue of the gas. I have found it unhealthy in using it for heating. It would be beneficial to ask the community about that.