Big Yengo

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Restoration, recovery, renewal

GR OnlineWhen Europeans first invaded Australia, it was common for them to comment on the verdant grasslands and gardens of the country. Few acknowledged – and most probably couldn’t conceive – that these features had been created by Aboriginal agricultural methods. Many of them, however, noticed the sudden deterioration in the colonial landscape and its soils after their arrival.

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The ghost river

FictionWhen he was about to begin the river story Moses would stamp at the ground with the heel of his boot and call out to the birds in the trees, 'listen hard now'. He'd clap his hands together a couple of times, make a clicking noise with his tongue and the birds would lift off from the trees in the distance and move a little closer, to the wattles lining the riverbank. 'Back in the old time, before the humans,' he would begin, 'this girl, the river, she didn't stop her life where she does now, at the mouth at bay there. There is no bay in the time I'm talking with.'

Going on

PoetryTell the e-books and the changing climate and the kids in space ships to go on without me. Whip them up in inside the...

A dialogue across the sea

GR OnlineRUBY: WE HAVE some disagreements, my mother and I, and not only about fairy tales. Mum says that I'm wrong, that actually, we were...