In a new book, 40 First Nations writers and thinkers share their favourite, or significant words from their own languages: words of belonging and connection.
- Honorary Professor in Arts and Sciences UWA, The University of Western Australia
This is a story about about the courage of Putuparri Tom Lawford, a Kimberley Wangkajunga man whose love of family, culture and traditional lands takes him on a hard yet profoundly rewarding journey.
Up to 150 ‘communities’ in ‘remote’ Australia are threatened with closure. But do such terms put a gloss on what is, in reality, the closure of people’s homes?
We are driving late at night along a highway that crosses the remote Kimberley region of northern Western Australia. We are in an area known as the Fitzroy Valley, about 3,500 kilometres north of Perth…
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