This audio clip is an excerpt from the track 'Dali Mana Gamarada' featuring a collaboration between First Nations opera singer Deborah Cheetham and the genre-defying sound collective, Wicked Beat Sound System.
Dali Mana Gamarada was performed at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney as a Welcome to Country during the moment that Cathy Freeman lit the olympic cauldron.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.