Corowa mayor Cheryl Cook says the proposal is intended to unite the town as a ‘single, cohesive community under one sovereign emblem’, but traditional owners say it erases their past
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Kevin Atkinson knows his history, which is rooted deep in the red gums that line the Murray River. But he says a recent decision by a local council against flying the Aboriginal flag is removing that history from view.
“If they want [Aboriginal] people to respect them and their history, they gotta do the same to us,” the Bangerang elder says. “That’s the way that you move forward together, instead of two different groups going in two different directions.”