Indigenous Perspectives, Knowledges and Empowerment

In one of the earlier series, Aunty Fran and Uncle Bruce talked to us about seasons. Aunty Fran gave us the full detaill of the 6 seasons of the Sydney basin and we thought we would share it with you as a special bonus.

In this final episode we talk to uncle Bruce and Aunty Fran about what you the audience can do. You may want to turn your garden into a native oasis, but don’t know where to start. We thought we get them to talk to the simple changes for your backyard.

When we look at the many issues facing our countries today, we wanted to see what the key issues that Aunty Fran and Uncle Bruce think we need to make sure we are listening to in relation to land.

n this podcast we catch up Aunty Fran Bodkin. She talks about her concern of Aboriginal medicines being stolen or sold out by other Aboriginal peoples. Aunty Fran also remembers growing up and gathering Aboriginal medicinal plants with her mother and Grandmother on the Cooks River, Marrickville and Kurnell in Sydney’s South.

In this podcast we catch up Uncle Bruce Pascoe, he speaks about how we can all, carry forward a part of Aboriginal Lore, through bringing back old practices and ways of growing Aboriginal plants and how we can learn to crop several plants together but harvest them separately. Uncle Bruce also talks about the need to educate our children to recognize Australian plants and their values.

In this podcast we catch up Uncle Bruce and Aunty Fran to talk about their knowledge on cultural burns. For a lot of communities burning’s or fire practice was used in many ways, as a prevention of hot burns, protection of animals and flora, sometimes as a germination of means, other times to help create regrowth and new cycles of growing.

In this podcast we catch up Uncle Bruce Pascoe and Aunty Fran Bodkin to about the Indigenous knowledge on seasons. Depending on the country, the seasons are often read by plants, shifts in weather and animals. There is also the larger cycles that are years longer that read to floods and droughts.

In this podcast we catch up Aunty Fran Bodkin who has planted numerous trees throughout a number of schools in Sydney and Uncle Bruce Pascoe talks about learning different methods of harvest if Aboriginal communities want to commercialise their own foods. And Uncle Bruce also tells us a little bit about what he’s doing to preserve Aboriginal grasses

Late in 2018 UTS Arts and Jumbunna opened Waraburra Nura on the 6th Floor of UTS Tower. In this podcast, Botanist and Dharawal Senior, Aunty Fran and Writer Uncle Bruce Pascoe share their stories about growing up and share their knowledge about Indigenous plants.