Stephanie Convery explores Indigenous stories up north

I have no brothers to lift the sky off my back . . . Nothing but these homeless clouds — Najwan Darwish, ‘Clouds’ A sugar cane farmer gazed across the flattened FIelds of his plantation after Cyclone Yasi struck down hard over the north Queensland coast in February 2011. Then, from the depths of all human loneliness in times of despair, he offered a piece of ancient knowledge to explain what had just happened to him, and muttered to the television camera, ‘Mother Nature, mate—she’s a good ‘un.’ Days before, there had been an exodus of people from towns along […]

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