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Oct 26

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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

May 24

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RePerth: From Capital City to Capital City

It is often mentioned that Perth, Western Australia, is the most isolated state-capital city in the world. It is around a three-hour flight to the next capital city in Australia (Adelaide). Perth is closer to cities in Indonesia than to every Australian capital other than Adelaide.[1] Yet this isolation may not be limited to mere physical distances. Read more