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Dark Emu in his introduction to his new book, Loving Country – a guide to sacred Australia, co-authored with Vicky Shukuroglou, an extract of which appears below. Perhaps 2021 can be the year then, to at least start to change that, as, in the face of closures and international border restrictions, we satiate the travel bug by exploring our own backyards more enthusiastically than ever before. Everywhere we go, from Broome to Bass Strait, we can be mindful of the Aboriginal culture there, past, present and future. And we can make this an endeavour not of token deference, but of real personal enlightenment and even national conciliation. ....
It needs to talk to you. Living shelters are found on mountain slopes among the granite tors. Photograph: Vicky Shukuroglou In this valley you are only an hour from your countryâs federal parliament. But the political decisions here began 120,000 years ago. Evidence of the culture is all about you as you walk through this national park â rock art, scar trees, stone arrangements, tools. It is so tempting to take a souvenir but please stay your hand. Those specimens have yet to be fully studied and we need them to explain and defend our culture. We need our cultural objects in situ, not on your mantelpiece only to be turfed out by your grandkids when you die. ....