Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations
What comes to me when I read ‘corporation’ in respect of indigenous people, I see they didn’t own the land, the land owned them. There is the gap, not income, it is a gap that cannot be bridged until the Australian community recognises their ancient knowledge and integrates it. We as a civilisation have imposed our ways on them (handed down to us as well) and we haven’t learned their ways as an exchange of mutual respect. Had our forefathers come as equals I don’t think sustainability would have been the issue it is today. I doubt they would be living in poverty by western standards.
The corporatisation of this culture is another way of moving them away from traditional ways and knowledge. It brings in the profit motive (taking) rather than living in harmony (giving) with natural system as symbiotic (give and take). I feel this loss deeply as I contemplate the real loss of culture and traditional land as the dominant culture replaces the ancient culture of the oldest civilisation on the planet.
There poverty only occurred when the British invaded the country (not Terrus Nullius). They lived where need equals want and took only what they needed. They were nomadic so knew the country (s) intimately as the ‘mother’ or spirit world ‘dreaming’. I see and feel a freedom in this lifestyle. Perhaps they learn modern ways to then recognise the unhappiness it brings (1:5 mental health issues). Until we all come to a point that we are not living in harmony, we will still confront the break down of earth and human systems.
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