Two Aboriginal men have clashed over which clan had the right to hold a traditional Indigenous smoking ceremony at the opening of a major highway in Western Australia.
The incident comes as Australians prepare to vote on a national referendum on whether to change the country’s Constitution to include greater recognition of Aboriginal interests.
On July 9, during the opening of a freeway extension in the northern suburbs of Perth, a man of Indigenous appearance interrupted the proceedings saying the host did not have the right to conduct the smoking ceremony.
“I don’t think these people coming out here, thinking that you fellas could say this, say that, on this land,” a man in red can be seen saying in footage by 7 News….