Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
--Adelaide is home. Relaxation is Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer who has lost his way in life.I have trouble coping in the technological mode of being of our complex digital world.
An attack on protesters (from Still Wild, Still Threatened) in the Florentine Valley yesterday, trying to protect forests on the eastern edge of the World Heritage Area. Their car was in the middle of a forestry access road, peacefully but effectively blocking the ability of loggers to gain access and chop down the trees.
The loggers bashed the vehicle with a sledgehammer: eventually dragging one protester out and kicking him in the head. One protester caught it on a phone camera and the footage is below:
The Bartlett Tasmanian Government does not understand that standing old-growth native forests are far more valuable as carbon stores in a warmed up world than they are as woodchips.
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