WHILE several councils across the state have ventured to express that the Acknowledgement of Country preceding official ceremonies, meetings and various events have become overused, Southern Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) said it was committed to reconciliation and had no plans to scrap the tradition.

This came off the back of a Herald Sun article on Wednesday stating that SGSC mayor David Robertson thought even local Indigenous communities felt the Acknowledgment to Country was “overdone”.