Needed: a new relationship with the land
The Texts of Terra is a project about reimagining our relationship with the land. It uses Australian literature and passages from the bible to help do this. Recent events in Australia are forcing us to find a new way of relating to the land.
Climate crisis
Apart from the global concerns about climate, here in Australia we face critical questions about water and the Murray-Darling basin, the river system on which most of our population depends.
The fallout from Mabo
Other recent events have touched something at the core of our identity. The Mabo decision of the High Court overturned the idea that this country was a terra nullius, a land which belonged to no one. Now we have to recognise the rights of traditional owners. The land is no longer there for the taking.
Asylum seekers
The arrival of asylum seekers has also touched something deep within us about our relationship to this land. No matter that most illegal arrivals in Australia are by air, media reports of people arriving by boat stir up in us long-held fears that our presence in this land might be threatened by people coming from countries to our north.
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