Is Australia welcoming? A First Nations perspective by Professor Chelsea Watego

A woman with brown hair standing outdoors and looking at the camera. She is wearing big, pink earrings and a grey t-shirt. The yellow and pink text on her t-shirt reads: did you forget whose land you're on?

Chelsea Watego is currently Professor of Indigenous Health, and Executive Director of QUT’s Carumba Institute. She is a prolific writer and public intellectual, having written for IndigenousX, NITV, The Guardian, and The Conversation. Source: Supplied

Professor Chelsea Watego debunked the narrative of a welcoming Australia in her First Nations keynote address – Another Day in the Colony – delivered at the Welcoming Australia Symposium.

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Published 16 May 2023 1:42pm

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Professor Chelsea Watego debunked the narrative of a welcoming Australia in her First Nations keynote address – Another Day in the Colony – delivered at the Welcoming Australia Symposium.

The Welcoming Australia Symposium was convened (Melbourne 09/05/-11/05/2023) by Welcoming Australia, a movement that aims to cultivate a culture of welcome and create a future where people of all backgrounds have equal opportunity to belong, contribute and thrive.