2022 John Paul Memorial Lecture: Healthy Country
Australia has been cared for and shaped by Indigenous peoples over tens of thousands of years, but that was disrupted by colonial systems of oppression and displacement with disastrous changes to the environment. Indigenous peoples’ responsibility to care for Country, has in many ways been denied though contemporary land planning and management. This event asks how do we care for Country in contemporary Australia, and how might western science embrace Indigenous knowledges to achieve healthy Country outcomes?