While the general mood was one of celebration,the issues still faced by Indigenous Australians were not ignoredAs the sun dropped lower in the sky and a storm rumbled ominously overhead, the central Australian women’s choir gathered on the red dirt, and Uluru forming their backdrop,and began to sing. Harmonised hymns, brought over by missionaries and translated into Aranda and Pitjantjatjara, and rang out across the crowd.
The singers,from half a dozen choirs across the central desert, were among hundreds of people who had travelled from as far as Kimberley in Western Australia to commemorate the 1985 handback of Uluru and Kata Tjuta to the Anangu people.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com