This is where my story is at right now, with questions, with yearnings, with listenings and with learning to do. I believe it is important for us to position ourselves in the cultures we interact with, to evolve in our understandings of the diverse cultures we are connected to, and most importantly to show respect for the cultures we owe our safety, our stability and our success to - and who are long past due having those gifts redistributed back to them. Australia always was and always will be Aboriginal Land.

You apologise with your actions and your sustained commitment to making right, not with your words and your assertion that those words should warrant you being pacified and made comfortable for the effort in speaking them. An apology is something you do, not just something you declare.