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Murray River Country LaunchMurray River Country discusses the water crisis from a unique perspective — the intimate stories of love , loss and passion for the river country’s resilience felt by the Aboriginal people whose traditional country incorporates the inland rivers. Jessica Weir brings a fresh narrative to contemporary debates about the Murray-Darling Basin, opening up a space for dialogue to change our fundamental philosophies about water. After all, if we’ve been managing Murray River water, how did we get to this unmanageable state?
Weir wants to move readers beyond questions of how much water will be ‘returned’ to the rivers, to understand that our economy, and our lives, are dependent on river health. She uses different knowledge traditions to reveal unacknowledged assumptions that trap our thinking and disable us from acting.
To be launched by Monica Morgan, Yorta Yorta Elder and John Doyle, Murray River Country goes to the core of our national understandings of who we are and how we can live in this country.
Published by Aboriginal Studies Press.
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Date: 29 August
Time: 11:30am -12:30pm
Venue: Festival Club, ACMI
Session Code: 2962
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