“It was very disrespectful to culture ... to the Indigenous people in this Country.” First Nations groups are divided over a television show depicting Australian Hollywood action hero Chris Hemsworth joining an Indigenous cultural ceremony.
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Chris Hemsworth and First Nations artist Otis Hope Carey on a two-day bushwalk through the New England National Park. While the episode was about memory, the conflict has arisen in part because of the fracturing of cultural memory through colonisation. The Mid North Coast was wracked with frontier violence and heavily colonised in the aftermath of the first wave of dispossession, with Aboriginal people removed from their clans’ ancestral homelands and forced into government and church-run reserves – or missions. People from different clans and nations were purposely mixed, and government-sanctioned bans placed on cultural practices and the use of traditional languages.
Holten said there was an ongoing issue with “self-appointed” elders claiming they had the authority to speak for local communities. Indigenous human rights and policy adviser Jason Field, a Walbunja-Bidjigal man living on the NSW South Coast, said mining companies in particular have been accused of inciting tensions to get their way, but this kind of dispute was common even when efforts to gain consent were genuine.
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