Australia's Agricultural Identity [electronic resource] : : An Aboriginal Yarn

Joshua Gilbert2025

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Summary

Yarning across history and into the future, Joshua Gilbert explores a new approach to Indigenous culture and farming, combining ancient knowledge and practices with new technology and insights. Starting from his own Worimi country, where his family history is captured in the journals of the Australian Agricultural Company - among the earliest written records of agricultural practice on this continent - Josh listens to yarns about the farming that has always been and continues to take place on that country, which demonstrate that Indigenous culture is not static; it can account for and inform our approaches to land and climate even as they are changing. As he contemplates these yarns and histories, Josh seeks to provide a new understanding that Australians, as a nation of farmers and land managers, need to develop our agricultural system into one where Indigenous and Western knowledges converge. One where we acknowledge the realities of Australia's farming heritage and find...