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Latai Taumoepeau is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice fuses ancient and everyday temporal practice using mediums like performance, dance, installation and social engagement. 
Her faivā (body-centred practice) is grounded in the traditions of her homelands, the Island Kingdom of Tonga and her birthplace Sydney, land of the Gadigal people. 
Latai joins us to discuss her work over the past decade exploring the impact of climate change in the Pacific and the threat of dispossession that many island communities face.
Latai was a leading artist on Arts House Melbourne’s five-year project, Refuge, an exploration of community preparedness in emergency management. She shares her insights on that process and how her collaboration with the SES on that project has continued to evolve.
Latai was recently awarded Creative Australia’s 2023 Award for Emerging and Experimental Arts and reflects on the meaning of that acknowledgement and some of the questions contemporary artists face surrounding the relevance and sustainability of their work. 
Links
ABC Arts Week - Latai Taumoepeau: Creative Australia Award for Emerging and Experimental Arts 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKfKmtcergA 
Artist Profile / Repatriate at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13K2Gr-Od8w&t=9s 
Mass Movement, Refuge, Arts House Melbourne
https://www.artshouse.com.au/events/mass-movement/ 
Mass Movement, Documentary Short Film, Refuge 2021, Arts House 
https://www.artshouse.com.au/events/mass-movement-documentary-short-film/ 
The Last Resort: Biennale of Sydney
https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/latai-taumoepeau/ 
Follow Latai on instagram
https://www.instagram.com/latai101/?hl=en 

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Kerry Jones is the Director of Systems Initiatives for the Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI). We spoke with Kerry in Meanjin / Brisbane, during the Australian Disaster Resilience Conference where she presented a program of work that is enabling communities to lead their own disaster response systems through a model of engagement called “Now-Future-How”.
This work, led by TACSI through the Fire to Flourish initiative, is built around the philosophy that when it comes to building resilient communities, the answers lie within the communities themselves. Kerry shares how the model is designed to deepen resilience capability to set communities up for success in approaching collective decision making and leading their own change.
Links:
Case study: Now Future How 
TACSI
Fire to Flourish

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When Cyclone Yasi hit the coast of North Queensland in 2011, the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation and its active community of rangers and artists took a position of leadership in the recovery process and galvanised a devastated community.
In this episode, Girringun’s Founder and Executive Officer Phil Rist shares the story of their Traditional-Owner led organisation; we take a tour around the renowned Girringun Arts Centre with manager Joann Russo; and we also hear from Girringun Ranger Michael George and Communications Officer Seraeah Wyles about the interconnectedness of arts, culture and country.
This episode is a re-release, originally aired in October 2019. We decided to share this episode this month in response to the outcome of the recent referendum as a way to continue using this platform to amplify Indigenous perspectives in disaster management.
The Creative Recovery Network expresses our solidarity with First Nations people and our ongoing staunch commitment to walk hand in hand to find new pathways for change. 
If you would like to support the work of the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation, you can donate here:
Some perspectives on the outcome of the referendum we have been reading / listening to:
Bhiamie Williamson in The Conversation
Claire G Coleman in The Saturday Paper
The Full Story: How to continue the fight for Indigenous rights
The movement that follows the Voice, Thomas Mayo
Other resources related to this episode:
Girringun Aboriginal Corporation
Girringun Resilience: Portraits of Yasi
Girringun Resilience (video), Creative Recovery Pilot Project
National Indigenous Arts & Cultural Authority 
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Girringun: the trailblazing Indigenous corporation caring for 1.2m hectares of north Queensland


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Bhiamie Williamson is a Euahlayi man from North West NSW and one of Australia’s leading researchers into Indigenous peoples’ experience of disasters. 
Bhiamie’s work in this field has led to his current leadership of the National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Project which sits within Monash University’s Fire to Flourish program. We spoke with Bhiamie following the inaugural National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Summit in Meanjin, Brisbane - a first-of-its-kind event that marks a significant step forward in disaster planning in Australia. 
Instigated by Bhiamie’s work within Fire to Flourish and driven by his motivation to build a community of practice around Indigenous approaches to disaster management, the summit brought together hundreds of Indigenous and non-Indigenous disaster planning representatives to share perspectives and discuss how to collaborate effectively into the future. 
Bhiamie also discusses his recent work with Phoebe Quinn and Professor Lisa Gibbs around Indigenous healing methods, highlights the importance of working within decolonial research frameworks, and shares the potential that privileging Indigenous voices in disaster planning can offer into developing new modes of thinking around the climate crisis. 
Links >>
Fire to Flourish, Monash University
https://www.monash.edu/msdi/initiatives/fire-to-flourish
 
National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Summit Program
https://www.aidr.org.au/events/37022?locationId=37027
 
National Indigenous Radio Service, First Nations Knowledge Needed in Disaster Planning
https://nirs.org.au/news/indigenous-knowledge-needed-in-disaster-planning/


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Annette Carmichael is an award-winning choreographer and dance artist based in Western Australia with community engagement at the core of her work. She joins Scotia to discuss The Stars Descend, an ambitious and inspiring performance work that consists of five chapters, crafted with and for five different communities in the south-west of Western Australia in partnership with renowned eco-restoration project, Gondwana Link.
Driven by the desire to inspire climate hope and action, the performances were staged in outdoor settings across Gondwana Link’s 1000 kilometre ecological pathway, with each of the five communities presenting a chapter responding to the extraordinary biodiversity of the region.
The Stars Descend music appears in this episode courtesy of Annette Carmichael Projects: Sound design by Simon Walsh, Dave Mann, Andy O’Neil, Azariah Felton and Jean Michel Maujean, The Stars Descend, Annette Carmichael Projects, 2023. Track compiled and mastered by Azariah Felton.
LINKS
Gondwana Link
The Stars Descend at Heartland Journeys
Radio National interview with Malgana woman, Janine Oxenham, choreographer and star of The Stars Descend
The Stars Descend Highlights Video
‘Strong Like a Karri’. Behind the scenes video of The Stars Descend: Chapter Three, Porongurup.
The Stars Descend: Chapter 1 (Wooditjup Margaret River), Full Performance 
The Stars Descend: Chapter 2 (Northcliffe), Full Performance
The Stars Descend: Chapter 3 (Porongurup), Full Performance
Annette Carmichael Projects
Film: Breathing Life Into Boodja


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Dr Margaret Moreton is Executive Director of the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR) and leads the work of AIDR to develop and share knowledge and learning to support a disaster resilient Australia. 
Margaret joins Scotia to talk about the work of AIDR and the importance of building a collaborative approach to how we plan for and respond to disasters. She shares the story of her first understanding of the importance of community and collaboration from her childhood growing up in rural Australia and how this has informed her life and work.
This, along with her experiences during the 2003 Canberra fires and the 2009 Victorian bushfires, motivated Margaret’s journey into community-based research into disaster recovery and resilience and what has now become an ongoing commitment to building capacity and improving resilience outcomes for Australian communities.
We also hear about the upcoming AIDR conference (August 23 - 24), the first to be delivered under Margaret’s leadership, and how this year’s program is enhancing the inclusion of diverse voices and new platforms including a dedicated focus on creative recovery for the first time.
Notes:
Australian Disaster Resilience Conference, 2023
AIDR Knowledge Hub
Climate Change and Social Capital: Professor Daniel Aldrich
Natural Hazards Research Australia

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