A lecture that really inspired me was when Stevie Goldsmith came to talk about the Kaurna Culture. He is apart of LKCC which educates people about the culture with tours, seminars, workshops and galleries.

Stevie Goldsmith was personal in his talk, he told us that his mother was from Kaurna and his father was Pondy from Taillem bend. He was born in 1957.  I felt it was nice to know about where he is from and his family, I felt more connected to him.

Something that intrigued me was that Australia day on the 26th of January is celebrated by the Aboriginal people as a survival day. It makes me think we should change our day to something more inclusive of the Aboriginal people. It seems bizarre that we celebrate a day when the First Fleet came to Australia in 1788 when the arrival of Europeans in 1836 caused Indigenous people so much pain.

I learnt that Aboriginal culture has been alive for around 300,000 years, but most known for 45,000 years. Also that the Dutch came to Australia first before Captain Cook in 1788. Captain Cook was not interested in the culture or the people in Australia but the land, the land was said to be 'Terra Nullis'. Europeans drew pamphlets to get people to come to the land. When the Europeans came they built prisons and let prisoners loose amongst the Aboriginal people, there was an act of genocide through Australia. I never knew there was a thing called the 'Black Line' in Tasmania where the settlers shot any Aboriginal insight. Knowing this now makes me so upset and infuriated that anyone could be so inhumane. Stevie asked if we about about these event and if not why not? Makes me question why we are not taught this.

In South Australia, Glenelg was also claimed to be 'Terra Nullis' and Aboriginal people were locked away and taken to Pindi by force. They felt like trespassers. Stevie had explained that the different tribes of Indigenous people are like different countries. So when the Kaurna people were taken to Pindi it was like they were trespassing and intruding on the Pindis peoples land. The Aboriginal people were taught the western idea of farming and they could get more wheat then the non indigenous people so they were moved back closer to the city.

Aboriginal people finally became people of this country from a referendum to be included in the constitution in 1967.