Every day I observe the sea, the sky, the earth. I breathe in these stolen elements and I remember that these are the ancestral lands of the Ningy Ningy people. I am honoured to live on this land, the land of the cliffs of running blood, oysters and the Kurbingaibah but I acknowledge the trauma caused by my ancestors and continued by my peers. As titles have been lost to the sands of colonisation and corruption, I would also like to acknowledge the Yugara, Turrbal and Gubbi Gubbi people. I pay my respects to Elders, past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, dreams, traditions and hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Finally, I acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, and this was, and always will be Aboriginal land.