Apart from the injustices that we have inflicted on them, they must be deeply wounded by our disregard for their wisdom and knowledge through our collective desecration and ignorance.

Much of this disregard is in the name of progress. We might ask, where we are progressing to?

Sixty thousand years of faultless care for this wondrously diverse land maintained its rich and sustainable biodiversity.

In the virtual blink of an eye we latecomers have progressively destroyed so much: land, waterways, oceans and air.

Intelligence is a cultural concept.

Our current generation risks leaving future generations without the wisdom that elders passed down through generations of indigenous culture.

Our young people are going to have to develop their own wisdom if they are to live in harmony with this country.

Is it too late for us older people to learn?

Respect for human life and community, and for the land upon which we all depend, must be put before our current preoccupation with material wealth and possessions.

Herein lies wisdom.

It's very disappointing to experience lockdowns throughout the state when all along virus outbreaks have been in Melbourne keeping us restricted.

If measures were taken to lock the entirety of Melbourne down businesses could keep the economy going forward for the regional areas to get back on their feet earlier and would not need support to survive from the government.

This makes a lot of sense to most of us in these areas.

In July each year, many people-a disproportionate number of them Aussies, have travelled to Spain to participate in The Running of the Bulls.

Not in 2020, however, where the risk of COVID-19 has seen this event cancelled.

This cancellation is great news for the bulls who would otherwise be forced to run through crowds of drunken, erratic people, after which they are brutally stalked and killed for "sport."

Many participants who would have been run down or gored for getting in the way of a terrified, skittish animal - two Australians were gored just last year, should feel relieved too.

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