Very privileged to have been able to co-author this important report for the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council with Adjunct Professor Anne Poelina, and the Martuwarra, River of Life and living ancestral being!
This peer-reviewed publication, Martuwarra Country: A Historical Perspective (1838-present) is published by The University of Notre Dame Australia as part of the Nulungu Publication Series and is available here.
Abstract excerpt: the report seeks to examine the impacts of colonisation, more particularly pastoralism, on the Martuwarra Country and its people and concludes with the contemporary voices of Martuwarra people.
It provides an extensive, period-specific historical account of the Martuwarra people’s connections to their Country as a point of departure and a premise for discussion contrasting Aboriginal perspectives and the development lens of the State. In doing so, this report also juxtaposes the events of the past with the continued contemporary imposition of development strategies still at odds with Aboriginal life-ways.