I live in Ireland, but I was not born here. I was born in Germany - in Munich, to be precise. Most of my family are still in Deutschland. Only my mother and I live here, on the Emerald Isle. When we first moved here, when I was seven, I didn't speak a word of English. I had just finished kindergarten and was due to start primary school.
The Victorian Council of Churches' Social Question Commission hosted an important ecumenical forum, entitled 'Christian Perspectives on Treaty, Sovereignty and Constitutional Recognition', in Melbourne on 9 November 2016. Speakers included Stuart McMillan, president of the Uniting Church in Australia; Ken Sumner, a Ngarrindjeri man from South Australia and Victorian state director of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC); Vicki Clark, a Mutthi Mutthi and Wemba Wemba woman, and former coordinator of the Aboriginal…
