Mr Mundine said Welcome to Country is a 'beautiful idea where we say to people we welcome them'. 'What it has started to turn into is this very divisive, political push,' he said.

'A Welcome to Country is not a ceremony we've invented to cater for white people. 'It's a ceremony we've been doing for 250,000 years-plus BC - and the BC stands for Before Cook.' ...

At best welcome to country ceremonies are an incoherent, tokenistic farce, at worst they are a humiliation ritual to delegitimise modern-day Australia and cast the overwhelming majority of its ...

The fierce Welcome to Country debate has reignited across the country ahead of the NRL’s showpiece event in Brisbane this weekend, sparking questions on when and if it will be used.