{"id":21902,"date":"2023-10-24T11:12:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T00:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=21902"},"modified":"2023-10-24T16:58:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T06:28:35","slug":"welcoming-the-new-chancellor-to-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2023\/10\/24\/welcoming-the-new-chancellor-to-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming the new Chancellor to Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a first for Flinders University, new Chancellor John Hood has been Welcomed to Country as part of the celebrations for his first Council meeting as Chancellor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21906\" style=\"width: 566px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21906\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/10\/Flinders-19Oct23-Smoking-Ceremony-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/10\/Flinders-19Oct23-Smoking-Ceremony-22.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/10\/Flinders-19Oct23-Smoking-Ceremony-22-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/10\/Flinders-19Oct23-Smoking-Ceremony-22-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/10\/Flinders-19Oct23-Smoking-Ceremony-22-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petiola Wilson welcoming the ancestors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday 19 October, Chancellor Hood, alongside Council and members of the Flinders community, was Welcomed to Country by Petiola Wilson with a Smoking Ceremony at Yungkurrinthi Inparrila. Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous) Professor Simone Tur spoke briefly before the Ceremony about the cultural importance of Inparilla for the Flinders community, and of the new beginnings that the Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony represent. Following the Ceremony, Council convened the first meeting with Mr Hood as Chancellor.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Smoking Ceremony and Welcome to Country for Chancellor\u2019s first Council meeting\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aBacZIQ70Ig?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was the first time a high officer of the University has been welcomed with a Smoking Ceremony and Welcome to Country at the commencement of their tenure, and reflects the continual journey that Flinders University is on as we work to ensure that Indigenous strategies and cultural perspectives are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/reconciliation-action-plan\">embedded within the very heart of our University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21904\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21904\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/10\/Flinders-19Oct23-Smoking-Ceremony-56.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/10\/Flinders-19Oct23-Smoking-Ceremony-56.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/10\/Flinders-19Oct23-Smoking-Ceremony-56-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/10\/Flinders-19Oct23-Smoking-Ceremony-56-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/10\/Flinders-19Oct23-Smoking-Ceremony-56-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice-Chancellor Professor Colin Stirling, Petiola Wilson, Chancellor John Hood and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous) Professor Simone Tur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first for Flinders University, new Chancellor John Hood has been Welcomed to Country as part of the celebrations for his first Council meeting as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4182,"featured_media":21903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55563,32135,32563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-fearless","category-reconciliation-action-plan"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}