The event organizers are required to find anointed members of the local tribe and pay them shit-tins of money to perform the humiliation ritual for them.

There is an ongoing theme underneath every one of these "Welcome to Country" ceremonies is that the "First Nations" people never gave up sovereignty, and that it follows that they should be able to grant citizenship in parallel to the nation of Australia.

This is a literal plan by the Australian Socialist Alliance; and their useful idiots within the aboriginal community are happy to go along because they attention, money, and privileges at every step.