Image: Lannon Harley, ANU
Image: Lannon Harley, ANU - Chancellor, colleagues, students and friends of ANU: I begin by acknowledging the First Australians on whose lands we meet, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, and paying my respects to Elders past and present. And to Uncle Wally, thank you for welcoming us so warmly to these lands where your ancestors have met for thousands of years. It is an honour to meet here, and to be reminded that our campus, this great place of learning, stands on the land where hundreds of generations of Indigenous Australians learned from each other. Before I talk about the state of the University, I want to spend a moment talking about the state of the world around us. So far, it has been an exceptionally difficult summer of flame and fear, of hailstones and health warnings. Smoke from bushfires has polluted our air for weeks, and in the past week, the fires reached our city. Our normally lively campus has been closed multiple times, and our Australian summer has been spent indoors, sheltering from the heat and the smoke.
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