{"id":283,"date":"2021-07-08T09:42:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T09:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=283"},"modified":"2021-07-08T10:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T10:49:58","slug":"aboriginal-place-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Aboriginal Place Names"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you know what Aboriginal land you&#8217;re on today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No matter where you are in Australia \u2014 make sure you know that it&#8217;s on Aboriginal land \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/eds\/nitv\/do-you-know-what-aboriginal-land-you-re-on-today\/0b3d7e7b-74ae-4916-82ea-bd456b84b5a4?fbclid=IwAR1UvpEWzzwmJEn607KKglA55H_Aw5sgJqHwMgPk0UflxM9ijff75oqMVmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and <em>what<\/em> Aboriginal land<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information on Aboriginal geography, go to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/aiatsis.gov.au\/explore\/map-indigenous-australia\" target=\"_blank\">AIATSIS map<\/a> of Indigenous Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This NAIDOC Week, Channel 10 is reporting the weather using the traditional place names for Australia\u2019s major centres: Meanjin (Brisbane), Naarm (Melbourne), Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Boorloo (Perth). Viewers have responded positively to seeing the familiar map overlaid with names that will to most of us be pretty unfamiliar. News presenter Narelda Jacobs called it \u201cone of the things that I\u2019m most proud of in my entire career here at Channel 10\u201d.<br>Also this week, Australia Post announced new packaging for letters and parcels that will include a line for the traditional place name. The change comes in response to a community campaign led by Gomeroi woman Rachael McPhail.<br><br>For these words to trip off the tongue \u2013 to trip off the pen, as we address an envelope \u2013 would be a small but concrete step towards drawing submerged layers of our history back into warm, living circulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/208334830_10158467703589773_5615214190364200276_n-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/208334830_10158467703589773_5615214190364200276_n-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/208334830_10158467703589773_5615214190364200276_n-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/208334830_10158467703589773_5615214190364200276_n-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/208334830_10158467703589773_5615214190364200276_n-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/208334830_10158467703589773_5615214190364200276_n.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know what Aboriginal land you&#8217;re on today? No matter where you are in Australia \u2014 make sure you know that it&#8217;s on Aboriginal land \u2026 and what Aboriginal land. For more information on Aboriginal geography, go to the AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia. This NAIDOC Week, Channel 10 is reporting the weather using&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indigenous-matters-and-covenanting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}