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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Along the Road, Sadlands
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'We are always on Country, no matter if it is called city or desert, school or bush, road, rock, mountain, beach—even in the prison it is all Indigenous land. This is the settlers’ unpayable debt. I run down by the river on Wurundjeri Country, in morning or night, whether it is lighted by mist or the silver wattle blooms, it’s all the ancestors and the stories of this land, which I can never fully know. It is through art and writing, I think, that we have already begun to reciprocate these stories, to account for and somehow resist malign presences, which, as Charmaine Papertalk Green tells us in ‘More than Balga Grass trees and kangaroos’ (2022) have tried to ‘eras[e] our stories out’. So here:' (Introduction)

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  • Epigraph:

    In country and colonial landscapes, it is

    Possible we might see the same things

    With paintings offering a glimpse into

    The way we think and value we place

    On the natural beauty captured thru art

    The colonial landscape paintings sometime

    Contradicting the colonial attempts at

    Colonising and erasing our stories out…

    —Charmaine Papertalk Green ‘More than Balga Grass trees and kangaroos’
    in Art (2022) by Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Online 2023 25828445 2023 periodical issue 2023
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    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 82 no. 3 September 2023 27118521 2023 periodical issue

    'In considering the Meanjin Paper for this edition, we have dived deep into the archives of Meanjin, seeking to honour the voices of those that have come before. Through our reading of the archives, we understand that many of the issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have remained the same for close to 45 years: the failures of government policy and funding that directly impact Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, the devastating impacts of racism, and the social issues that continue to harm our people such as poor health outcomes and suicide. Through our reading, we have also found that our strengths remain the same, a fact that is deeply heartening to us-our families, the care for our children, our culture and its resurgence, and our self-determination and vision for our futures.' (Publication summary)

     

    2023
    pg. 46-51
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