The only way to learn is from the river, like our old people did when they sat on its high banks of red and green
‘Many people don’t trust the river as it bursts its banks and flows across the floodplains inundating homes and livelihoods. But I trust the river more today’ Pictured is the intersection of Orion and Molesworth Street in Lismore in March 2022.‘Many people don’t trust the river as it bursts its banks and flows across the floodplains inundating homes and livelihoods. But I trust the river more today’ Pictured is the intersection of Orion and Molesworth Street in Lismore in March 2022.
Many of the old people looked after and knew how to live on Country in a healthy way. Now, I fear we will just blame the rain. We have a big opportunity to learn, and I hope we do for our own sake. We need to honour the old people’s ways and help restore Country.When Rosebank was flooded on Sunday 27 February, we went down to Coopers Creek in the afternoon when the rain stopped so we could see the flooding. It had burst the banks and was extensive.
A massive recovery effort followed the evacuations. There was an amazing community response but it appears that agencies involved were very under-resourced and not well prepared for such an extreme event. With the increasing affects of climate change, these flood events could easily become our new normal.Storms with heavy rains and floods are powerful elements and have shaped these landscapes for millennia.
For millions of years, water has flowed across this place we call Bundjalung Jagun, shaping the landscape and teaching us Lore. There are many traditional stories that teach about the way the ancestors shaped the Country. We also have stories about how people cared for Country by protecting areas and species in places or seasonally or how species moved or were shifted around to maintain kinship and abundance.
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