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Aboriginal land acknowledgements are the norm in Australia. What's the significance?

Host Deepa Fernandes recently took a trip back to Sydney, to visit family. And while listening to the radio, she heard broadcasters acknowledging the indigenous land they were on.
Aboriginal artist Tess Alice with her dog. (Deepa Fernandes/Here & Now)

On a recent trip to visit family in Sydney, Australia, Here & Now host Deepa Fernandes noticed something while driving around listening to the radio.

One ABC News daytime host introduced herself and said she was, “coming to you from Gadigal Land” — the Indigenous land from which she broadcast her show. It struck Fernandes that many shows on

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