50 min
On the Road Welcome?
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- Samhälle och kultur
Listeners are warned that the episode includes the name of an Aboriginal person that has died. His name is used with permission.
Native title in Australia is sometimes celebrated as a successful form of recognition for Indigenous people. But the way the law works means the rights of Indigenous people are required to co-exist with those of settlers and their descendants. This is the case in Wilinggin in the Kimberley region of North West Australia. Here, Ngarinyin people who never ceded their land live alongside cattle station owners, tourism operators and other Aboriginal people, and though their native title rights have been legally recognised, they don’t have the right to veto activities on their land, nor straightforward access to it.
In this episode we take a journey to the Kimberley, where the brutal history of the cattle industry’s colonial past continues to resonate. We make stops along the Gibb River Road to hear from Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Each of them spoke with Cameo Dalley, sharing their experiences of living on the Road, its history and what they envisage for the future.
The stories in this episode ask challenging questions about whether and how coexistence might work in practice, and how it reinforces colonial relationships of power. It prompts us to think about how these kinds of relationships might endure in our own lives and communities.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Listeners are warned that the episode includes the name of an Aboriginal person that has died. His name is used with permission.
Native title in Australia is sometimes celebrated as a successful form of recognition for Indigenous people. But the way the law works means the rights of Indigenous people are required to co-exist with those of settlers and their descendants. This is the case in Wilinggin in the Kimberley region of North West Australia. Here, Ngarinyin people who never ceded their land live alongside cattle station owners, tourism operators and other Aboriginal people, and though their native title rights have been legally recognised, they don’t have the right to veto activities on their land, nor straightforward access to it.
In this episode we take a journey to the Kimberley, where the brutal history of the cattle industry’s colonial past continues to resonate. We make stops along the Gibb River Road to hear from Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Each of them spoke with Cameo Dalley, sharing their experiences of living on the Road, its history and what they envisage for the future.
The stories in this episode ask challenging questions about whether and how coexistence might work in practice, and how it reinforces colonial relationships of power. It prompts us to think about how these kinds of relationships might endure in our own lives and communities.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
50 min