Richmond Riverkeepers inconjunction with Mel Bampton
6 episodes
3 weeks ago
Is there a relationship between unwell minds and unwell rivers? Is there a connection between crime and corrupted waterways? Ella Bancroft is a poet, an advocate, an activist, a potent voice full of vigour, love and fury. Most of all Ella Bancroft is Bundjalung, deeply connected to her ancestral lands and the water that gives her home its name. This is a story of weaving ourselves back into the fabric from which we were all born and have been so damagingly unpicked from – the great tapestry ...
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Is there a relationship between unwell minds and unwell rivers? Is there a connection between crime and corrupted waterways? Ella Bancroft is a poet, an advocate, an activist, a potent voice full of vigour, love and fury. Most of all Ella Bancroft is Bundjalung, deeply connected to her ancestral lands and the water that gives her home its name. This is a story of weaving ourselves back into the fabric from which we were all born and have been so damagingly unpicked from – the great tapestry ...
Living with Risk: Life Beside The River with Elly Bird
We Are The Riverkeepers
36 minutes
2 months ago
Living with Risk: Life Beside The River with Elly Bird
The aftermath of catastrophic flooding reveals our deepest relationship with rivers. When waters rise unexpectedly, destroying homes and livelihoods, how do communities rebuild not just physically, but emotionally? Elly Bird, former Lismore City Councillor and Executive Director of Resilient Lismore, has dedicated years to answering this question. This tension manifests in Lismore's physical relationship with the Wilson River (Marmon). Like many towns, Lismore has historically "turned its ba...
We Are The Riverkeepers
Is there a relationship between unwell minds and unwell rivers? Is there a connection between crime and corrupted waterways? Ella Bancroft is a poet, an advocate, an activist, a potent voice full of vigour, love and fury. Most of all Ella Bancroft is Bundjalung, deeply connected to her ancestral lands and the water that gives her home its name. This is a story of weaving ourselves back into the fabric from which we were all born and have been so damagingly unpicked from – the great tapestry ...
