Some are grappling with how to celebrate her life while also acknowledging trauma from colonisation.
Cedric Jacobs received an MBE from the Queen in 1981 for his service to Indigenous Australians
When she looks at it now, she sees a sovereign standing in front of a man who dedicated his life to having the sovereignty of his own people recognised.Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have spoken of complicated emotions after the Queen's death. Much has changed since, but Indigenous Australians remain disproportionately worse off in terms of health, education and other measures compared to non-Indigenous Australians.
Controversially, the Australian Football League Women's decided against mandating a minute's silence for the Queen last week because it was Indigenous Round. But the National Rugby League fined and suspended an Indigenous player after she wrote an offensive post about the Queen that some defended as freedom of speech.
She seemed sympathetic, he says, to the desires of First Nations people - such as in 2000 when she called for the government to "ensure prosperity touches all Australians", pointing out many Indigenous people felt "left behind".
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