ULURU'S traditional owners, the Anangu, recently welcomed the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton with a traditional inma (dance and song).
The ceremony was a moving reminder of the union of cultures that exist in today's modern Commonwealth.
The Queen's Baton contains a message from the Queen and the setting among spinifex was significant because the paper Her Majesty's message is written on is made from this grass.
At last year's Baton Relay launch at Buckingham Palace, Yugambeh Elders Patricia O'Connor and Ted Williams delivered an invitation to all first nations people of the Commonwealth to come together in celebrating the games on the Gold Coast in April.
This was the first time Indigenous elders have been invited by the Commonwealth Games Federation and the Royal household to participate in the Buckingham Palace ceremony with the Queen in attendance.
Including Australia, this Queen's Baton Relay has visited all 70 nations and territories of the Commonwealth, over 388 days and 230,000 kilometres. It will be the longest relay in Commonwealth Games history when it finishes at the Opening Ceremony on the Gold Coast on April 4.