Blood on Our Hands
Dharrawal-Yuin Country
Following the destructive wildfires in Southeast Australia in the summer of 2019-2020, Yuin Walbanja knowledge-holder Noel Webster reflects on the health of Country at a significant place where the edge of land culturally burned in 2018, met the heat of the wildfires 18 months later.
Credits:
Produced by Firesticks with Vera Hong and Craig Bender / Backbone Productions.
Filmed and edited by Vera Hong and Craig Bender / Backbone Productions.
“Over the years, our fire knowledge has laid dormant in this landscape and when landscape becomes sick, people become unhealthy as well. This is also expressed through our trees who hold our fire knowledge.”
Uncle Nook (Noel Webster)
Yuin Walbanja knowledge-holder