RePerth – By Horst Kornberger
Is it simply a monosyllabic place
on the periphery of maps,
a city on the pedestal of isolation,
a mining Mekka
on the road to prosperity? Read more
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Nov 22
Money Dreaming: “Everyone is a Banker”
In Noongar Country in Western Australia, the Whadjuk word for money is the same as the word for rock: Boya. Only with the arrival of Europeans did the word for an externalised monetary system come about (connected to rocks that contained gold).
In Indigenous Australian culture, people are assigned particular totems or dreamings – not arbitrarily, but out of keen spiritual insight and guidance. To have a dreaming is to have a responsibility for that dreaming – to care for it. One is expected to fully know it – to become it. Read more
RePerth 