
071 | 100 Anne Poelina: Water, memory and the Martuwarra
100 Climate Conversations
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The Importance of Diversity in the Nation
Fitzroy River Council is the largest Aboriginal cultural heritage site in Western Australia. Nine nations occupy that river system 733 kilometers 96 000 square kilometers of watershed and so we came together because from the beginning of time we have been bonded through a law of the river which we call Wallangari law where the river has made these ways that we must look after our commons for the greater common good not just of us as Indigenous people but for the birds for the trees for everything else living. In 2022 it would be a council of elders and also young people particularly indigenous people who can dream now with our leadership, he says. It's an amazing place I'm still finding places that I didn't think
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