Nearly half a million dollars was spent on 'Welcome to Country' ceremonies by the Australian government over two financial ...

Welcome to country ceremonies at Australian government events have cost Aussie taxpayers more than $450,000 in the past two ...

The government has spent close to half a million dollars on Welcome to Country ceremonies over the last two years according to newly released data.

As Australia Day 2025 fast approaches, the Federal Government is providing more than $10 million in financial support for ...

4 ceremony at State Parliament in Melbourne to recognize Cooper, who in 1938 protested the “cruel persecution” of the Jews. Some 300 Jewish and Aboriginal leaders joined Australian government ...

The modern form of a Welcome to Country was developed in 1976 by Dr Richard Walley's Middar Aboriginal ... then the ceremonies have become a regular feature at public events in Australia and ...

It turns out that Albanese’s government and its agencies in fact spent $453,000 on welcomes in the last two years, according to Freedom of Information records obtained by federal Liberal MP James ...

Commonwealth government departments have been accused of fuelling a “multi-million-dollar industry” for Welcome to Country ceremonies after tax payers were slugged with a $450,000 bill for the ...

An Indigenous community has banned Welcome to Countries because the ceremonies are 'embarrassing ... in 1976 by Dr Richard Walley's Middar Aboriginal Theatre group, after Maori and Cook Islands ...

Peter Dutton has taken issue with the Aboriginal ... s Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has also called for the rolling back of Welcome to Country ceremonies.

Melbourne, Australia — When a team of Aboriginal rangers and scientists arrived at the billabong, a shrinking oasis in a stretch of tropical savannah in Australia’s Northern Territory ...

A Surf Coast councillor wants Australia Day celebrations and citizenship ceremonies to return and is among those preparing a ...