“I acknowledge that I live and benefit from working across the lands of the Gumbaynggirr people, and Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation - the true custodians of the land. I acknowledge that these lands were stolen and that their sovereignty was never ceded. I recognise the First Peoples of so-called Australia as having a strong connection to community, land, and waterways. I pay my respects to their thriving culture, their ongoing resistance, and to their Elder's past, present, and becoming.“

Ben Tarento