Opposition Leader Peter Dutton declared Welcome to Country ceremonies are ‘overdone’ at the final debate with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, held this week.

A First Nations academic claims people still don’t want to acknowledge we’re on Aboriginal Land, adding most non-Indigenous Australians lack understanding between acknowledgment Country and Welcome to Country.

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Produced By: Micah Kickett

Featured In Story: Jessa Rogers – Wiradjuri woman and Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, and

First aired on The Wire, Thursday 1 May 2025