 Tonight, we celebrate Indigenous Australian culture and innovation. With over 500 clan groups, 600 languages and a wide variety of cultural customs, beliefs and traditions spanning thousands, tens of thousands of years, the story of Indigenous Australia is one of the oldest in the world. The contribution of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to modern Australian society is integral to the country that we are. Australia is the home of the world's oldest continuing culture that spans around 75,000 years. The Australian government is proud to support Bangara on the world stage and particularly at this reception tonight in Geneva, the home of the UN Human Rights Council and the centre of thinking about traditional knowledge led by the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Negotiations are currently underway at the World Intellectual Property Organisation for an international instrument to promote and protect Indigenous peoples' cultures, materials and practices, and Australia strongly supports these discussions. We're especially pleased to be hosting the events tonight because they very much go to the heart of the mission of the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Of course, WIPO is the means by which performers are protected and the rights of performers are protected worldwide. So we're delighted to have some really acclaimed performers with us tonight as a concrete expression of this protection which is provided. In addition, as I think most of you will all know, this organisation has been working for many years to find a means of protecting traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions internationally. Arguably, they are much more vulnerable in an age of globalisation and this week there is a meeting of our committee that looks after the development of the international instruments in this area and Bangara Dance Theatre unites all of these various missions of the organisation, world acclaimed performers expressing a continuous unbroken cultural tradition that is the oldest living unbroken cultural tradition in the world and certainly a traditional cultural expression mixed with innovation, one of the other features of the mission of this organisation. So we're especially pleased.