Acknowledgement of Country
We, the members of the
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC), acknowledge the
traditional custodians of Australia and the sovereignty of the Māori in New
Zealand.
ANZSOC would like
to acknowledge the ongoing Traditional Custodians of the lands for
which our constituents conduct their teaching, learning, and research. We would
like to acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and the lands,
now called Australia, continue to belong to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people, the Traditional custodians of the lands. ANZSOC would like to pay
respects to the Elders who have passed on the legacy of knowledge and culture
to the future generations and acknowledge that the future generations
hold the hope, the stories and the continued knowledge for current and emerging
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. May this knowledge through
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing guide
you with wisdom and courage.
ANZSOC also recognises
iwi Māori and their unceded right to tino rangatiratanga (sovereignty) and
their expression of mana motuhaka (self-determination).
We acknowledge mātauranga Māori (Māori ways of being and knowing)
informs both traditional and contemporary knowledge production and its ability
to enhance our collective futures.