Skip to main content

Join Stephen Muecke, Tony Birch, Jason Nangan Roe, Chris Healy and Eve Vincent as they discuss the need for new kinds of storying about Australia.

In North-West Australia, between 2009 and 2013, a major Indigenous-environmentalist alliance waged a successful campaign to stop a huge industrial development, a $45 billion liquefied gas plant proposed by Woodside and its partners. The Western Australian government and key Indigenous institutions also pushed hard for this, making the custodians of the Country, the Goolarabooloo, an embattled minority.

This experimental ethnography documents the Goolarabooloo’s knowledge of Country, their long history of struggle for survival, and the alliances that formed to support them. Written in a fictocritical style, it uses a Latourian multirealist kind of analysis that focuses on institutions (Indigenous or European), their spheres of influence, and how they organised to stay alive as alliances shifted and changed. 

We’re celebrating Stephen Muecke & Paddy Roe’s latest book The Children’s Country, which tells the story of Goolarabooloo struggles for Country.

Past event details.

Back to top

Details

Recorded: 21 April 2021

Speakers

Stephen Muecke
Tony Birch
Jason Nangan Roe
Chris Healy
Eve Vincent

Tags

Goolarabooloo Paddy Roe recording Stephen Muecke Tony Birch videos

Share

Other Recordings

16 Sep 2022

Peer Stories of Homelessness in Naarm

A double event presenting Homeless in Hotels, a three-part radio series documenting life in hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic and Bendigo Street, a film about political resistance through a housing occupation in Collingwood.

16 Sep 2022

FOOD SYSTEMS BEYOND THE PANDEMIC?

Global food supply chains, we have been told often in recent years, are in crisis. How much, though, does this language of crisis – as particular, contextual, temporally-bound – suffice …

15 Sep 2022

I said this to the bird, a panel

Four strangers, all Iranian men, congregate in the hall of a migrant resource centre somewhere in Melbourne. In their coming together they take the audience through a rollercoaster of emotions. …