An Aboriginal Pastor’s message for Australia Day

Posted on January 23, 2020 
Filed under Australia

“There’s a heartache still in this land,” says Pastor Michael Duckett of the Macarthur Indigenous Church as he shares a message for Australia Day, calling on non-indigenous Australians to remember the mixed feelings in the Aboriginal community about the day.

Speaking in a video titled The Ministry of Reconciliation, Australia Day 2020, Pastor Duckett gives a greeting in the indigenous Gumbayggirr language of the North Coast of New South Wales.

He said he hopes people will enjoy Australia Day but be sensitive to Aboriginal People…

– Read the full story, and watch the video, at SydneyAnglicans.net.

You could download the video to show in church on Sunday, Australia Day.