Clinton Pryor, who is on a Walk for Justice across Australia to bring about change and a better future for Indigenous Australians, received a warm welcome in Towamba this week.
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Mr Pryor left Perth in early September 2016 on a walk that has already taken him to Uluru and will eventually lead him through the Bega Valley, onto Redfern in Sydney and eventually to Canberra where he will press his people’s case for a treaty.
The 26-year-old Whadjuk man, who grew up in Indigenous communities in Carnarvon, Halls Creek and Kununurra in WA, also wants to express concern over the high rate of Indigenous incarceration and seek the better protection of sacred sites.
In Towamba, Mr Pryor met with one of Eden’s traditional owners, Stephen Holmes, a descendant of Budgenbro who in 1843 guilded Ben Boyd’s marine artist and manager Sir Oswald Brierly from Twofold Bay to the Monaro.
Mr Pryor also spent about an hour with excited and inquisitive pupils from Towamba Public School who questioned him about his Walk for Justice, including how many pairs of shoes he had worn out and where he had slept along the way.
Yesterday, he visited Boydtown and Eden, including Cocora Beach, starting place of the ancient Bundian Way pathway, before making his way to Jigamy Farm.
Over the coming days he will be visiting other local primary schools as he gathers support from the Sapphire Coast community.
The Eden Aboriginal Education Consultative Group has teamed up with Twofold Aboriginal Corporation to organise a walk with Clinton where all community members are encouraged to join him as he walks from Pambula to Merimbula.
The local walk with Clinton will depart at around 4pm from the gates of the Pambula soccer field on Friday, July 21. All are welcome and encouraged to join.
