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Duration: 60 minutes
A profound meditation on belonging and place, Debra Dank's remarkable memoir tells the story of Australia as much as it tells the story of her own family and ancestors. A Gudanji and Wakaja woman, Dank grew up in far-west Queensland in the 1950s and 60s, and she skilfully weaves the beauty and wonder of a rural childhood with the pain and dispossession that she, her people and her Country have faced over generations.
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Debra Dank
A Gudanji/Wakaja and Kalkadoon woman from the Barkly Tablelands in the Northern Territory, Dr Debra Dank is an Enterprise Fellow with the University of South Australia. She has spent 40 years working in primary, secondary and tertiary education roles, in urban and remote areas across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and the Northern Territory. She is interested in multiform narrative and its practice in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities and the role semiotics plays in that. Her book, We Come with This Place, won numerous honours in 2023, including four New South Wales Premier’s Awards and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Debra is passionate about the environment, especially as her Country, on the Beetaloo Basin, is under threat of being fracked.
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