Cirrus@Austlit

'This is a work of indigenous knowledge. It involves creating an experience into Country and culture. This experience is specifically linked to Gundabooka corroboree place, the Baarka river, to Bourke, and to the voices coming through 2CUZ-FM outback radio. The research aim is to see how Country speaks and what it says, which includes what it says through the cultural productions of Barkindji and other people in town. We are using a mass-media setting and technology – radio, and now print – to discuss and send out messages about Barkindjiness, Country, history and modernity. It’s about using the master’s tools to dismantle the master’s preconceptions. By bringing poets Jen Crawford and Paul Magee into the discussion and space, we are investigating communication between Barkindji Country and Barkindji people with white society. The discussion was broadcast live.' (Introduction)