Gumbaynggirr

Well, I think all life on Earth will occupy space until it runs out of space, and I think humans are absolutely no different.

And I mean, where I live in this small country town on Gumbaynggirr man, Taungurung country in Central Victoria, there was a s- there was a tree change during COVID, and a lot of people rushed out to the country, and the developers swoop- started swooping in, and, I mean, the traffic in my little town's probably increased 500% under a, you know, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

And I mean, that had been a big part of my professional life as well, working in loc- working for local government and state government around municipal health planning and the need to bring in, um, understanding of sense of connection to place.

And my Fulbright was around that with the Healthy Cities program.

... to externalities, and it's still your country and you can still look after it.

It's still your country, yeah.

And his point of view, which Michael Donovan, Gumbaynggirr man who's written a chapter there about Indigenous knowledge systems, was saying that, you know, First Nations peoples have lived through at least one significant ice age in the last 60,000 years.

And in fact, our whole species at one point dwindled down to about 2,000 people.

[gentle music] Yeah, at 25 Aretha Brown has already packed a lot in.

She's a proud Gumbaynggirr artist and advocate, and she's been in the public eye since she was 16 after a speech at an Invasion Day rally got national attention.

She went on to become the youngest person and first woman elected prime minister of the National Indigenous Youth Parliament.

Her art's now traveled around the world, worn by artists like Amyl and the Sniffers and Kneecap.

Can you tell me about where you grew up and how that environment influenced the style of art you ended up pursuing?

Yeah, totally.

So I grew up between my two communities, so my Gumbaynggirr mob up in Northern New South Wales.

A lot of my family live in the, the Nambucca Mission, and then also grew up in Melbourne with my dad.

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That's Outlandishly Hot would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land that we record on, the Gumbaynggirr people.

Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

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