Paradise would like to acknowledge Country, upon which the dominant contemporary notions of living and the architectures they produce have been imposed as part of forcible and ongoing colonisation. We are always on Country. Paradise is produced on the grounds of a complex interrelationship of nations and kinship systems, including the D’harawal, Dharug, Eora, Gai-maraigal, Gundugurra, and Guringai peoples.

We pay our respects to the Elders past and present, and recognise that all Australian land is stolen land and sovereignty was never ceded. We also pay our respects to the Indigenous and First Nations cultural knowledge holders who have supported us and shared their stories with us in the development of this project.

Paradise acknowledges its privileged position. There is hard work to be done to understand our role in upholding the structures of white supremacy, and all entrenched systems of discrimination and injustice. This work must be done in order for us to be active in their dismantling.