My name's Linda Burney and I'm from south western New South Wales.
I'm a member of the Wiradjuri nation and we have a huge land area, the Wiradjuri.
It covers the Lachlan, the MacQuarie and the Murrumbidgee Rivers.
Fortunately through lots of innovation and a little bit 
of growing up, people in Australia are beginning  
to understand our truth. And part of that truth isn't very pretty, 
and of course part of that truth is the fact that Australia was invaded,
and it wasn't until 1993 with the High Court decision in Mabo 
that there was even legal, the legal doctrine or the nonsense 
of the legal doctrine of 'Terra Nullius' was actually thrown out.
And for the first time in Australia formally we had the 
recognition that Aboriginal people had prior occupation to Australia.