I do have a belief

I do have a belief in the future
It's not hope.
I believe in this country
because there is a spirit in this country
that nurtures life
that nurtures the land
that nurtures the humanity in it.
People should remember
that we are the oldest surviving race
of People, culture of People, in the world.
We are in one way
the world's most important heritage
just for that link alone.
They know our People
have been on this pace for 50-60 thousand years.
They know, the invader knows this.
We know that our People have been here
from the beginning of time.
We believe
as the experts in the world keep testing
with their modern technology
that they will establish
the integrity of our claims
that we have been here
from the beginning of time
the creation
(in whatever form you see it)
the creation of man, Homo sapiens
and that we are indeed
very, very important to the world.
Not now merely in the physical sense
this sense, the lineal sense of man
the genealogy of man,
but we are very, very important
and will contribute in what we know
and what we can and will contribute
to a world that is desperately in need
of Aboriginal inspiration
Aboriginal caring
a different type of technological approach
and we know that we possess this.
So what I am saying is not a hope
it is a belief.
I know that justice will come
because I know that the rivers here are dying
the land is dying day by day
being killed by the whiteman colonists' pollution.
Life itself is dying
and the whiteman has nowhere else to turn.
They have to turn
They have to come to grips with the fact
they are relatively unimportant
to the total mosaic of life.
That it is all of us.
It is they that must seek
a new direction.