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With vast knowledge and fierce intellect, writers and community leaders Bruce Pascoe, Barry Corr and Debra Dank invite readers to reconsider what they know about this place, its history, its land and culture, and the futures that might be possible if we collectively work towards change. With backgrounds in activism, academia, literature, agriculture and journalism, and a slew of awards between them, don’t miss the opportunity to learn from these great minds, as they unravel settler understandings and assumptions, and share what they know of the more-than-ancient civilisations that have lived in and with this place for many thousands of years.
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Date: Saturday, 31 October 2026
Time: 5:00-6:00pm
Venue: Tibbi Whalan Hall
Tickets & More Info: https://www.bluemountainswritersfestival.com.au/events/knowing-country
Barry Corr is an Aboriginal man who has lived most of his life near Dhurabang, the river that settler society thinks of as both the Hawkesbury and the Nepean. His first book is Surveying the Wild Abyss: Unravelling Settler Memory.
Dr Debra Dank is a Gudanji/Wakaja and Kalkadoon woman from the Barkly Tablelands in the Northern Territory and an Enterprise Fellow with the University of South Australia. She is the author of We Come with This Place, Terraglossia, and Ankami.
Bruce Pascoe is an Aboriginal farmer and writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature, based on Yuin Country. His publications, including the groundbreaking, bestselling book Dark Emu, have won numerous awards. His follow-up to Dark Emu is The European Mind: Colonialism, Capitalism, Christianity and How to Recover.
Rae Johnston is a Wiradyuri and Greek multi-award-winning journalist and broadcaster who hosts ABC Radio National's Download This Show, ABC Radio Sydney's Saturday Mornings (broadcasting state-wide) and iHeartRadio's Weird Tech podcast. Rae travels the country as a TV host on NITV's Going Places with Ernie Dingo, ABC's Back Roads and SBS' The Secret DNA Of Us. Rae currently serves on the boards of both the Telstra Foundation and Swinburne University of Technology.
This event is part of the 2026 Blue Mountains Writers Festival, head to bluemountainswritersfestival.com.au for more information.
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