In Australia it is similarly getting weirder. I could get on board in the early days with the idea of opening events with a welcome to country, or starting a meeting acknowledging the traditional owners, if it meant increasing awareness of who the local traditional people are and creating real life interactions. But mostly it’s become a canned generic statement that is intoned without any feeling or connection. And the “Always was, always will be (Aboriginal land)” repeated everywhere like a mantra is starting to give off a creepy vibe, maybe like a horde of growling zombies making its way toward me.