Richard Collopy

My/Our hopes and aspirations for Treaty are around the more delicate issue of preservation of burial and birthing sites, ceremony etc. To date and since our family were signatures to the Batman Treaty nonetheless we are still unsure as to the protection of very personal information and historical links. I’m hoping to share more on this and lots more great history stories Through the years of and the mechanical nature of TO settlements and some NT outcomes l feel Treaty is a more positive platform to discuss these issues and have positive more open discussion than in the past sometimes we are pitted against each other and for what gain. Truely inspirational Tradition is where Lore rests and inclusion helps smaller groups not wrestle for but discuss inclusion and how it should be recognised. We all suffer the effects of post Colony’s early times. Comradery is the key for ‘No amount of our history weakening, our skin colour changing, makes us better equipped to deal in the ways of the Western world’s’; they used to say. I am very proud and inclusive, thankyou. Richard