The Bush by Don Watson
I can’t begin to give any sort of coherent overview of this rambling, sinuous, insightful journey into the bush. The book is as multifaceted and as full of flickering visions as the bush itself. Watson begins with his own rural family – Gippsland dairy farmers – but soon sets off in many different directions. Watson’s…
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
Dark Emu Black Seeds: agriculture or accident? is a short, sharp challenging book. Not challenging because it is difficult to read – far from it – but challenging in the way it undermines everything we thought we ‘knew’ about Aboriginal land management before white settlement. Dark Emu is an evocative title but the text is…