INDIGENOUS students at Morisset High School recently led an emotional ceremony to mark the anniversary of National Sorry Day, and the start of the school's annual reconciliation celebrations.
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Students Dana Patterson, Phoebe McIlwraith and Ashlee Maggs wrote and presented a personalised acknowledgment to the country, and an explanation of the significance of National Sorry Day.
"With the greatest respect to the elders both past and present of the Aboriginal people, we would like to acknowledge the land we stand on, the home of the Awabakal people," year 10 student Dana said.
"With sincere gratitude we'd like to thank you and our ancestors for the use of this land."
Phoebe earlier greeted the assembly with words of her tribe, the Worimi Bundjalong people.
The tender speech was accompanied by the raising of the Aboriginal flag, and ended with the song From Little Things Big Things Grow.
When the girls offered their heartfelt sympathies for the traumas endured by their people it moved the school's Aboriginal education officer Selena Archibald to tears.
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