Country, Climate, Colonialism (2023)

In 2023, the Australian Centre’s Critical Public Conversations webinar series will focus on the relationship between Country, Climate, Colonialism. The series seeks to interrogate the settler state’s incapacity to manage the ecology of this continent and will highlight the ways in which First Nations care for, and obligations to, Country are inextricably bound to questions of sovereignty. The webinar series will showcase research and activism that explores what it means to care for Country and do environmental work in the context of ongoing colonial occupation.

• Who is Country to me: Sovereign women protecting Country and culture

• Cultural water for cultural economies: pathways to water justice

• Embedding Country & Indigenous ways into health teaching

• What the land remembers before colonisation

• Decolonising Fire: Indigenous Land Stewardship and Climate Futurity

• From colonial conservation to natural capital: the green assault on Indigenous lands