{"id":10699,"date":"2023-03-06T02:47:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T02:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corzadesign.com.au\/aquametro\/?page_id=10699"},"modified":"2023-06-09T05:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T05:44:27","slug":"connect-to-country","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.aquametro.com.au\/index.php\/about-us\/connect-to-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect to Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"10699\" class=\"elementor elementor-10699\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dd18f12 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dd18f12\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-wider\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5255845\" data-id=\"5255845\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-39a56ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"39a56ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7bb203f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7bb203f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-wider\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-16a91fd\" data-id=\"16a91fd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16d390f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"16d390f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Connect to Country<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2bc1bd4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2bc1bd4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-wider\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e168df6\" data-id=\"e168df6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51e5fba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"51e5fba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Aqua Metro have award winning initiatives that promote employment opportunities for Victorian First Nation communities. One case in point is Wara Paring, which was founded through collaboration with Aqua Metro and Melbourne Water. Since their inception Aqua Metro have continued to employ their services on a number of our projects as well as business mentoring.<\/p><p>As part of our \u2018Reconciliation Action Plan\u2019 Aqua Metro looks forward to developing relationships with other First Nation Businesses, people, and councils in the Melbourne metropolitan area. Elders are engaged to provide Welcome to Country and Smoking ceremonies before project mobilisation. This is a significant ceremony to collectively acknowledge the Traditional Owners, engage with more Indigenous businesses and people, and to create a trusted and culturally safe environment for Indigenous people for future projects.<\/p><p>Our new Connect to Country logo, symbolises and strengthens our commitment to advance our reconciliation efforts and create meaningful and sustainable opportunities for Indigenous Australians within our local community now and for future generations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24ef5ea elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"24ef5ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div 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One case in point is Wara Paring, which was founded through collaboration with Aqua Metro and Melbourne Water. Since their inception Aqua Metro have continued to employ their services on a number of our projects as well&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11400,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10699","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.aquametro.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.aquametro.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.aquametro.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.aquametro.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.aquametro.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10699"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/dev.aquametro.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12694,"href":"https:\/\/dev.aquametro.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10699\/revisions\/12694"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.aquametro.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.aquametro.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}