Bill, please introduce yourself and talk about your experience about arriving in Australia and learning about our histories.

Yeah.

Thank you, Melita, and thank you very much to Ngarara University of Melbourne and Culture's Life for allowing me to be part of this panel and honestly to be in the presence of some academics and filmmakers whose work I've really admired over the years.

I am a settler colonial on two continents in many ways.

I was born on the lands of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe people in what is now called Montreal, and I migrated to Australia twenty-five years ago, and I live on the lands of the Boonwurrung people and work on the lands of the Wurundjeri people.

I never knew growing up or going to school in Canada whose lands I was on, whose country I was on, and it was moving to Australia and wanting to find out more about the history of this new country that I had migrated to and was making my home and building my family that I wanted to find out the full story.

And it quickly became apparent to me that the story of the First Nations people is an incredibly important part of that.

Mm.