Uncle Len Waters is a Kamilaroi elder in Tamworth,New South Wales,who has been performing Welcomes for decades.

Peter Dutton’s Welcome to Country claim comes from a common misconception about the ancient ceremony

Antagonism towards the tradition has been bubbling for months,but an argument the opposition leader recently made on the national stage is steeped in a fundamental misunderstanding.

  • Bronte Gossling

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Aunty Joy Murphy giving a Welcome to Country at Marvel Stadium in 2023.

Storm chairman ‘greatly upset’ by Welcome to Country ‘miscommunication’

Melbourne Storm have taken responsibility for what they say was an internal miscommunication that meant the Welcome to Country for their Anzac Day clash at AAMI Park was cancelled.

  • Sam McClure andLachlan Abbott
During the fourth leaders’ debate,Dutton took a strong stance against Welcome to Country ceremonies at sports games.

Welcome to Country at sports games ‘divides the country’,says Dutton

The opposition leader’s comments represent a hardening of the Coalition’s position after it pledged to wind back federal spending on Welcome ceremonies earlier this year.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Bunurong elder Uncle Mark Brown delivers the ‘Welcome to Country’ at the ANZAC Day dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne.

‘Stop welcoming me to my own country’? You’re missing the point

Those who jeered or condemned the Welcome to Country at Anzac Day ceremonies misunderstand its significance and intention. It does nothing to divide us.

  • Jessa Rogers
Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Place chief executive Fiona O’Leary,left,and program manager Kerry Williams,right.

‘Clear risks to staff and clients’:The community health buildings that are falling apart

For many of these places,foundations are failing,there are cracks in the walls or portions of the roofs could cave in at any moment.

  • Broede Carmody
“Australia prides itself on religious freedom. But you won’t accept our Welcome to Country?”

‘Honey,we’re not doing it for you’:Rhoda Roberts on the welcome-to-Country backlash

The artist and festival director on the link between songlines and welcomes to Country – and the tragic reason why she hasn’t celebrated her birthday for years.

  • Benjamin Law
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Scanlan Theodore sweater and skirt.

Actor Tasma Walton is linked to Indigenous tribe,judge rules

The judge also apologised for significant online abuse the 51-year-old suffered during investigations into a native title dispute in Melbourne.

  • Erin Pearson
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in the Sydney electorate of Fowler for the Assyrian New Year celebrations at Fairfield Showgrounds.

Dutton backtracks on two referendum ideas,digs in on deportation

The opposition leader previously floated two additional referendums and said he wanted to change the Constitution to strip citizenship from criminals.

  • Matthew Knott
The top 400m uphill section of Ballarat Turf Club’s new training track has not been finished.

Ballarat decided to build a racetrack in 2019. It’s still waiting for cultural heritage approval

A proposed $4.3 million undercover training track would help transform Ballarat Turf Club – if it is ever finished.

  • Danny Russell
If you didn’t go to school,you don’t get to go the pool in Bidyadanga,one of the remote pools in WA found to improve community wellbeing and health.

Disease rates halved,kids in school:Inside the towns where a local pool has changed lives

Children were being hit with ear,nose and throat infections to the point some were going deaf. That all changed.

  • Julie Power