Land

For Aboriginal people Land is not something that can be bought or sold; it is not a piece of ‘real estate’. Land in Aboriginal Terms of Reference is a sacred entity and is the source of our spiritual, human and cultural beginnings and is key to our physical, mental and emotional health and our spiritual well-being. “Land is the great life force that both created and further enables the continuation of all species including humans, provides for our nourishment, shelter and social organisation and informs us of meaning and purpose in human life in particular, and all of life, in general (Mary Graham in “Aboriginal Notions of Relationality and Positionalism”: A Reply to Weber”).