In 2020 Anne Poelina wrote the foreword for this book ‘Eco-activism and Social Work’ which is focussed on First Law is the natural law of the land.
This book can be purchased online at Booktopia
Rivers Talking
Download the flyer - PDF [ 430 Kbs ]
The Serpents Tale
Down the PDF flyer - PDF [ 94 Kbs ]
2019 Development Practice Public Lecture
Dr. Anne Poelina at Walmadany, Western Australia
Human Rights and Climate Change Conference and Annual Key Note Address for the School of Social Science Masters of Development Practice.
“… Dr Poelina champions the need to strengthen Indigenous peoples’ capacity to uphold their human, cultural and economic rights from anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change. The National and Aboriginal Heritage Listed Mardoowarra/ Fitzroy River is at a crossroad, with diverse and conflicting visions for its future. Colonialism continues, mining, fossil fuel extraction, unconventional gas, and large-scale irrigated agriculture are invasive development proposals that threaten land, water, food security and the life ways for all Kimberley citizens.
This presentation includes a short film; bridging culture and shared understandings integral to transforming climate change spiralling into climate chaos, continued species extinction, human and environmental injustice. Bringing these threads together, a picture of the Mardoowarra/Fitzroy River emerges as a national treasure for new economies. Economies grounded in collective wisdom; traditional ecological knowledge, customary law with transdisciplinary knowledges; ecological, archaeological, heritage, arts and cultural values. This aligned with the rights of nature as the solutions for planetary health and wellbeing through an earth-centred regional governance provides the hope necessary to re-imagine the future now!”
Read more at The University of Queensland website.
Read more at the ‘Human Rights and Climate Change’ Conference website
View details at Eventbrite
Balginjirr: A Special Place on our Home River Country
“… Dr. Anne Poelina (Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Master of Education, Master of Arts (Indigenous Social Policy), Doctor of Philosophy & Doctor of Health Science (Scholar)) is Managing Director of Madjulla Incorporated. She is a Nyikina Warwa Traditional Custodian from the Mardoowarra, Lower Fitzroy River in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia. Her childhood growing up in Broome, Derby and out on country has given her the love and respect for the diversity of Indigenous people, kinship and culture. She is a 2011 Peter Cullen Fellow for Water Leadership and is a signatory to the Redstone Statement that she helped draft at the 1st International Summit on Indigenous Environmental Philosophy in 2010. In 2011, she was the Inaugural Chair of the National First Peoples Water Engagement Council and later the same year she was elected onto the Broome Shire Council and became Deputy Shire President in her first term of office.
In 2014, she was elected as Director and recently Deputy Chair of the Walalakoo Prescribed Body Corporate responsible for the integrated management of 27,000 square kilometres of Nyikina and Mangala Native Title lands and waters. In 2017, she was awarded a Laureate from the Women’s World Summit Foundation (Geneva). In 2018 she was elected Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council. She is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow with Notre Dame University and a Research Fellow with Northern Australia Institute Charles Darwin University. Her current work explores the entrepreneurial ‘New Economy’ opportunities for Indigenous people along the National Heritage Listed Fitzroy River, in relation to green collar jobs in diverse, science, culture, heritage and conservation economies. Dr. Poelina champions the need to include traditional ecological knowledge, First Law and the rights of nature to the solutions for planetary health and wellbeing.”
See website: www.majala.com.au
Music:
Immersed Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Review this article also at the Westerly Mag
Mothers Of Invention
Episode 4
Nyikina Traditional Custodian and academic working in Indigenous health, education, language and community development - Kimberley, Western Australia
Song For The Mardoowara
‘Song For The Mardoowara’
Written by Gwen Knox in collaboration with Dr Anne Poelina.
Promotional film by Pia Davids of Feral Films.
A beautiful new puppetry work that tells stories that flow from the mighty Mardoowarra or the Fitzroy River in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. - access the YouTube video here.
Protecting The Fitzroy River Catchment
"...We welcome the Western Australian Government’s commitment to create a new protected area in the Fitzroy River Catchment, and to create a management plan to ensure the protection of the National Heritage and other significant cultural and environmental values of the river and provide a basis for sustainable development.
The Fitzroy River is one of the largest principally unregulated rivers remaining in Australia and is recognised as a centre of cultural life and biodiversity in the Kimberley.1 The river follows a path from the roof of the central Kimberley Plateau, flowing through spectacular and ancient gorges in the King Leopold and Napier Ranges, and coursing between wide floodplains before meeting the ocean at King Sound. The river and catchment support a rich and unique biodiversity of aquatic and terrestrial life with national heritage listed natural and cultural values."
Download the Science Statement of Support - [ PDF 440KB ]
Download the Australian's 'Finally, scientific-based evidence for Northern Australia food bowl' article - [ PDF 148 KB ]
Download the Kimberley Traditional Owners establish Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council [ PDF 508 KBs ]
Download the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council Statement from Combined Meeting of Traditional Owner Groups for the Fitzroy River Catchment Meeting Held May 15-16 2018 Fitzroy Crossing [ PDF 406 KBS ]
Download the Fitzroy River Declaration [ PDF 557 KBS ]
Waking Up The Snake
As quoted from the Regennarration website.
"....This week we present a very special podcast celebrating this year's NAIDOC Week in Australia. Dr Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Traditional Custodian from the Mardoowarra, Lower Fitzroy River, in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia. And if anywhere epitomizes the critical time we’re in, it’s in the spectacular cultural and natural landscapes of her homeland. Almost incredibly, there are 40,000+ fracking wells slated for this area, along with the damming of the Fitzroy River, and more ‘old-model’ industrial agriculture. Yet the new economy is also in tow here, and this is where Anne is currently focusing her extraordinary breadth of cross-cultural knowledge and experience."
"....Anne is an international award winner, Managing Director of Madjulla Incorporated, Councillor at the Australian Conservation Foundation, a qualified nurse, traditional midwife, has multiple postgraduate degrees, and over 30 years’ experience in Indigenous health, education, language and community development. Our Director Anthony James caught up with her at her home in Broome recently, to talk about what the shape the new economy might take in the Kimberley and beyond, how we can make it happen, and the enormous opportunity in treaty, recognition and connection with Australia’s First Nations."
Music:
Riverman, by the Pigram Brothers
Song for the Mardoowarra, by Gwen Knox with Anne Poelina, played by Mick Stevens, and sung by the Broome Primary School Choir
Pic: Magali McDuffie
Get more:
Majala - majala.com.au/our-people/
NAIDOC Week 8-15 July, celebrating Indigenous women - www.naidoc.org.au
Environs Kimberley - www.environskimberley.org.au
New Economy Network Australia - www.neweconomy.org.au
Gwen Knox & Big Mama productions - www.gwenknox.com/bigmama/
The film clip of the Song for the Mardoowarra - www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ZFG0mynnk (they will be touring this month in the Kimberley, and are available for bookings from early 2019)
Richard Flanagan at the National Press Club - www.abc.net.au/news/programs/nat…-flanagan/9672524
Welcome to Country, a new travel guide to Indigenous Australia - www.hardiegrant.com/au/publishing/b…n/9781741175431
Read more about this at Regennarration
Pedagogy Of Hope and Freedom
"...My Indigenous heritage is Nyikina; ‘ngajanoo Yimardoowarra marnil’, in my language means “a woman who belongs to our sacred river”, which centres me as property and a guardian of the Martuwarra (Fitzroy River). My career has focused on Indigenous health and wellbeing development using human, Indigenous rights and environmental justice." - download the full article here
"...Kimberley Traditional Owners will meet with State Government representatives in Perth today during the first ever gathering of the newly formed Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council. The Aboriginal body will urge government and industry to support the council as the new Traditional Owner representative group for management of the Fitzroy River and its catchment." - Read more of this in the KLC website
