"We acknowledge we're on stolen land"
"Are you gonna give it back?"
"Nah"
Imagine if I pinched my neighbour's TV, plugged it in and said "I acknowledge the traditional owner of this television" before switching it on. Wonder if he'd be cool with it.
> His criminal life saw him break into many homes in the "posher districts of Melbourne" - a deliberate choice, he says: "I robbed as rent collection for stolen Aboriginal land!"
> "Those mansions were on my mother's land, but I'm sure if I told the judge I was a rent collector, not a robber, I'd have been given another two years on my sentence."
( Bastardry (2008) is a funny and moving biographical documentry )
I've never met a white person who spouts "it's still their land" who actually gives back their 700sqm they worked to buy.
If they really actually cared, they would have protected these sites.