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Commencing news bulletins with an Indigenous greeting is not new. If you have the opportunity to view TVNZ's news bulletins, Maori and non-Maori presenters start the bulletin with "kia ora" meaning hello.
We could learn from our trans-Tasman brothers and sisters on incorporating an acknowledgement of their Indigenous ancestors at the beginning of the news bulletin with our Indigenous version of hello.
Given that there are 250 known but 120 practiced Indigenous languages source https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/indigenous-australian-languages it would be great to have linguistic experts come up with an Indigenous greeting at the start of a news bulletin.
Ms Boney led the way by announcing "Yaama" at the start of the bulletin.
Regards
Anthony of exciting Belfield