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New book Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia by Bruce Pascoe and Vicky Shukuroglou shows how Mount Isa could become a tourist mecca

Save Share Uluru, the Kimberley … Mount Isa? The Queensland outback mining town doesn’t usually come up in conversations about sacred sites, but it is one of the destinations featured in a recently published book that explores this country through an Indigenous lens. Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia takes a deep dive into 18 regions across the country, from Albany in Western Australia’s south to the far reaches of Cape York up north; from alpine valleys to coastal forests studded with scar trees and inland territories of “cracking soil and grass country, [where] aquatic animals that once thrived are now imprinted in stone”.

Bruce Pascoe has welcomed the Dark Emu debate – and so should Australia | Mark McKenna

MarkMcKenna The culture wars make it difficult to see what this moment is: an opportunity to deepen our knowledge of Indigenous people ‘Given the popularity of Bruce Pascoe and Dark Emu, and the widespread historical illiteracy regarding Australia’s First Nations people, much is at stake.’ Photograph: Vicky Shukuroglou ‘Given the popularity of Bruce Pascoe and Dark Emu, and the widespread historical illiteracy regarding Australia’s First Nations people, much is at stake.’ Photograph: Vicky Shukuroglou Thu 24 Jun 2021 21.40 EDT Last modified on Thu 24 Jun 2021 23.41 EDT The inaugural Headland Writers festival at Tathra, on the far south coast of NSW, 15 May. The small community hall was packed with over 200 people. Unable to find a seat, many stood at the back or shuffled along the side-walls. Despite the icy temperatures and gale-force winds outside, they’d come to see Bruce Pascoe, the acclaimed author of Dark Emu, which has sold over 250,0