For the greater good? Questioning the social licence of extractive-led development in Western Australia's Martuwarra Fitzroy River region

Poelina, Anne; Brueckner, Martin; McDuffie, Magali

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2020.10.010

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“…There is too much at stake for Rivers, for the planet and for people. It is time to decolonise development, let the rivers sing and shift the paradigm towards “ just development on just terms ” (Poelina, Brueckner, & McDuffie, 2020). We are One, and We are Many.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This healing and nurturing is a core part of developing the settler ability to respond as (Country et al, 2019, p. 696)Kin knows River people are not anti‐development. The Deputy Chair of the Martuwarra Council, Anthony McLarty, asks governments and developers to be “careful in the choices they make.” For the past 150 years, the River peoples watched and waited for the invasive and unjust development to stop (Poelina, Brueckner, & McDuffie, 2020).…”

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Hearing, voicing and healing: Rivers as culturally located and connected

Poelina

Wooltorton

Guimond

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In this article, a collaborative writing group explores how we, two rivers, express ourselves over time, place and space, our energies long interpreted as veins and arteries carrying the Country's life affirming blood. Voiced as River: I, River, this position reflects a worldview in which interrelationship with living river is normal, and River Spirit is ever‐present. It is a position underpinned by Indigenous narratives as riverine expressions of place‐based love. At times, the article is also voiced as a writing group or individuals, with voices being interchanged where required for smooth reading. We see this as part of the decolonising process, which feels liberating and healing among the writers. Each writer is equally valued as co‐creator, contributor, narrator and story teller. The two rivers, being Martuwarra Fitzroy River (Kimberley, Western Australia) and Unamen Shipu Romaine River (North Shore, Québec, Canada), illustrate a common condition of being, through heritage, life, change and possibility. Through stories and voices, the socio‐scientific implications of colonisation and lost connections become clear, considering the interaction, the dialogue and the cultural synthesis of living water systems that have always incorporated all life forms into rivers of life. As a way of navigating towards wholeness, Aboriginal knowledge systems and narratives for healing are used to bring together findings of this intercultural river learning journey.

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Hearing, voicing and healing: Rivers as culturally located and connected

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Wooltorton

Guimond

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“…However, this denies the richness of the present, which is inclusive of the past in knowledge, memories, repeated actions and habits, and constantly allows for the eventualities of the future. A linear, narrow view of time ignores historical injustices ('the past is the past') and denies the continuing invasive unjust developments such as extractive colonisation of Indigenous Lands and Waters (Poelina, Brueckner & McDuffie, 2020). It enables imaginings of a fictitious present built on denialof injustice, climate change, pandemics, poverty and the need for social and behaviour changes.…”

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“…As per the NAIDOC 2021 2 theme, Healing Country means embracing First Nations' cultural knowledge and understanding of Country as beyond Australia's national heritage, but as first 'world heritage and world culture' (United Nations, 2011). It means truth telling about our past, and redressing continuing environmental colonialism and injustice (Poelina, Brueckner & McDuffie, 2020). Healing Country is healing for all Australians.…”

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Regeneration time: ancient wisdom for planetary wellbeing

Poelina

Wooltorton

Blaise

et al. 2022

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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In these regenerative times prompted by the Anthropocene, Aboriginal voices are situated to draw on ancient wisdom for local learning and to share information across the globe as ecological imperative for planetary wellbeing. In this paper, postqualitative research foregrounds the sentient nature of life as ancestral power and brings the vitality of co-becoming as our places into active engagement. It enables coloniality to surface and reveals how it sits in our places and lives, in plain sight but unnoticed because of its so-called common sense. Postqualitative research relates with ancient knowledges in foregrounding Country’s animacy and presence, revealing the essence of time as non-linear, cyclical and perpetual. In this way, we are places, weather and climate, not separate. Postqualitative research also relates with ancient knowledge in illustrating Country as agentic and time as multiple, free of constraint and directly involved in our everyday. Country is active witness in the lives of Aboriginal peoples, here always. This is a strong basis for decolonisation. We all have a responsibility to listen, to help create a new direction for the future in the present time.

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“…They also tend to be disproportionately affected by development (Poelina et al, 2021), as other Indigenous peoples (Ulloa, 2017).…”

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A well‐being framework for cross‐cultural assessment of development scenarios: A case study from North‐Western Australia

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In Western‐democratic countries, it is widely accepted that affected communities should be involved in natural resource planning and decisions. This is especially so when the well‐being of diverse communities is directly involved, and where alternative future options are being considered. Although there is an agreement that ‘values’ and ‘well‐being’, in some form, guide decisions, there is no consensus on the well‐being framework(s) that might be used in participatory planning. To assist a multicultural group in assessing alternative future development scenarios for the Martuwarra (Fitzroy River) in Western Australia, we developed a well‐being framework that culturally diverse communities could share and use to discuss and assess scenarios. In this paper, we aim to evaluate the effectiveness of the well‐being framework used to assess the potential impacts of scenarios by (i) analysing how effectively participants used the well‐being framework; (ii) verifying whether the well‐being framework was sensitive to the cultural diversity of participants and (iii) direct evaluation by workshop participants. Our analysis shows that participants effectively applied most well‐being categories, and the framework was sensitive to the cross‐cultural context of the application by capturing Aboriginal cultural elements. However, the approach can be improved by including principles of behaviour; producing a more complete system model; and reviewing and amending the well‐being categories in more extensive community consultation. We conclude that the interaction among different worldviews generated valuable knowledge and that, with further adaptation, the framework shows promise for applications involving similar tasks in culturally diverse contexts. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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For the greater good? Questioning the social licence of extractive-led development in Western Australia's Martuwarra Fitzroy River region

Cited by 17 publications

References 45 publications

Hearing, voicing and healing: Rivers as culturally located and connected

Hearing, voicing and healing: Rivers as culturally located and connected

Regeneration time: ancient wisdom for planetary wellbeing

A well‐being framework for cross‐cultural assessment of development scenarios: A case study from North‐Western Australia

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