It doesn't have to be one or the other. I'd say most organsiations that do acknowledgements in meetings would also have developed Reconciliation Action Plans and are actively trying to not make it tokenistic.
'Acknowledgement of Country' in the workplace
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Acknowledging the ancient and deep connection of Indigenous people to this land, and that Europeans tried to take that away, should never end up like the Our Father when it's said mechanically with no real comprehension. That's my issue with saying an Acknowledgement of Country every day.
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well the words don't have to be tokenistic, they certainly seem to piss enough people off currently so they're doing something by reminding people who's land they are actually on
but where the argument does come in as an example, if Rio Tinto are doing an acknowledgement of country while they are planning on demolishing a sacred site
or when a government state or federal does it while siding with a mining company over traditional owners, or while continuing to enact legislation that disadvantages Indigenous communities
if its used to avoid actually doing anything or to cover for bullshit then yeah its bad, but in general I think people having more awareness of it is good
There was a Welcome to Country at the Kambosos v Haney fight on the weekend. I feel it works well in boxing, there's a lot of indigenous participants in boxing and in the crowd, and I believe Haney connected with some of the local traditional owners when he was here for the last fight. It certainly seemed to have a bit more gravity than some of the ones i've witnessed in the corporate setting.
Yeah it's funny I recon we are just used to having this sort of stuff at sports events but not the workplace, and that affects how we think about it.
National anthem is the same - you can have that at footy finals, Melbourne Cup, Car Racing, etc. But imagine if we started each work week with the anthem - it would feel a bit like we are in a Communist country or something.
He was Manny Pacquiao's sparring partner for years, he's fought mainly in the US for the last 5 or so years so that's why he wasn't known like a Tim Tszyu.
He got a title shot last year and had a huge upset win, was meant to be an easybeat for the champ at the time, and the champ Lopez had 4 of the world title belts and the Ring magazine "belt". So once he pulled that off he insisted on defending it here, unfortunately for him he probably chose someone too good to fight, could have picked some others he might have had a better chance against but he sacked up and gave it a crack.
The funny thing is before the main event we copped the triple anthem: The US (got booed by some), the Greek and then the Australian anthem. That's actually pretty common at the boxing, usually they're of different nationalities and they'll play the home country anthem as well. Though I guess the Greek one is Kambosos' heritage but still made sense, there were a lot of crazy Greeks there!
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Could be worse, at American baseball games they sang the national anthem, god bless America and a thank you to the troops.....all 3 games I went to 
I guess half of the players who aren't American just stand there with their hands on the hearts thinking of the millions they are making....
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I guess half of the players who aren't American just stand there with their hands on the hearts thinking of the millions they are making....
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