. How blending teas helped a young Indigenous woman connect to her culture "I'd made a lemon myrtle and ginger tea, and Sharlee started thinking a little bit more deeply that you can get lemon myrtle tea anywhere. So Sharlee thought maybe strawberry gum might be an interesting addition. "So we popped some strawberry gum …
Diggings 16 August 2020
Matt Golding is a favourite editorial cartoonist of mine particularly when he uses food and this edition of Diggings features three about COVID-19 as experienced in Australia. Indigenous banana cultivation dates back over 2,000 years ANU Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence of Indigenous communities cultivating bananas more than 2,000 years ago. The evidence of …
Diggings 26 July 2020
Australia's water market is excluding Indigenous people, study finds '“Alarmingly, we also found that the amount of water held by Aboriginal organisations has decreased by 17% over the past 10 years,” the Australian Rivers Institute’s researcher Dr Lana Hartwig said. ... More than 40 Aboriginal nations, about 15% of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander …
Charlie and the Chestnut Forage
2005 Charlie knocks on the door at 5am. Bastard! It’s the first of cold autumn mornings and I’m desperate to snuggle down till the last possible moment. I stumble to the front door. ‘Af pas five, the bus is going’, he says, cheekily smiling, pointing to his watch and shaking a set of keys. For …
