Yorta Yorta

So we're able to pull it back.

hopefully end with a sense of not only hope but thinking but allowing people to see what is at cost and our role in taking care of these trees that have always taken care of us so we have koalas in that room we have a beautiful work by lynn onus which is a very peaceful um depiction of his um home in Yorta Yorta country got a commission by Dean Cross that thinks about the secrets and the hidden sort of life of the gum tree it's a really beautiful room and I think it's a nice way to end that show

Beautiful.

I think you kind of answered a good portion of the questions we had written down, but I wanted to ask with sense of the place, room, it was really bright, but I found some of the artwork to be a little bit depressing with the industrialization of nature and everything.

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in particular, that connects the Maldives, that connects, of course, the tradition of his Yorta Yorta people and the 40,000, 50,000, 60,000 years of living tradition that they're a part of.

You feel free to start wherever you would like.

Would you introduce us to William Cooper in his context? [gentle music]

Ah.

So we don't really know, we can't be sure of when he's born, but as far as historians have been able to piece together, he's born in 1860 on his people's country.

His people are known as the Yorta Yorta people, and he is born at the intersection of two major rivers in southeastern Australia.

By the time he's born in the early 1860s, his people have already suffered what we can literally call decimation.

I am your host, Robert McLean.

This podcast is assembled in Shepparton, in Northern Victoria, on the lands of the Yorta Yorta people.

Yes, the stolen lands of the Yorta Yorta people.

And I pay my respects to their elders, past, present and emerging.

The stalls associated with the Zero Waste Festival were in what could be described as the foyer to the Edge Theatre at Federation Square.

I'm your host, Robert McLean.

This podcast is assembled here in Shepparton, in Northern Victoria, Australia, on the lands of the Yorta Yorta people.

Yes, the stolen lands of the Yorta Yorta people.

I pay my respects to their elders, past, present and emerging.

Let's go now with those 10 interviews.

I'm your host, Robert Maclean.

This podcast is assembled here in Shepparton, in Northern Victoria, Australia, on the lands of the Yorta Yorta people.

Yes, the solar lands of the Yorta Yorta people.

I pay my respects to their elders, past, present and emerging.

And now we have a story from Michael West Media that has the headline, AI data centre puts Melbourne's Westgate Bridge at risk.

[singing] Yeah.

[singing] Yorta Yorta Turtles.

[singing] From the river to the hardwood.

[singing] Whoa.

[singing] Let's go.

[singing] Yorta Yorta Turtles.

[singing] Whoa.

[singing] Hear the crowd scream loud.

I'm your host, Robert McLean.

This podcast is assembled here in Shepparton, in Northern Victoria, Australia, on the lands of the Yorta Yorta people.

Yes, they're still on the lands of the Yorta Yorta people.

I pay my respects to their elders, past, present and emerging.

Next we have the audio from a story in the New York Times.