Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSW LHD) would like to acknowledge that this planning process relates to the country for which the members and elders of the Bundjalung, Yaegl, Gumbaynggirr and Githabul Nations and their forebears have been custodians for many centuries, and on which the people of the Bundjalung, Yaegl Gumbaynggirr and Githabul Nations have performed age old ceremonies of celebration, initiation and renewal. We acknowledge their living culture and unique role in the life of this region.
We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Ancestors and Elders, both men and women of those Nations, and to all Aboriginal people past, present and future.
Throughout documents when we use the term Aboriginal we are referring to Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander People. North Coast refers to the geographical area within the boundaries of Northern NSW Local Health District.