Singing The Coast by Tony Perkins and Margaret Somerville

Singing The Coast by Tony Perkins and Margaret SomervilleMost Australians live on the narrow coastal strip that fringes our island continent. For Aboriginal people a place comes into being each time it is sung, and it is through this process that places are learned about and cared for. These songs can be for all of us, in the places where Aboriginal stories are rapidly overwritten with the grids of roads and towns. Together Tony Perkins and Margaret Somerville explore one coastal group's experience in

His life illuminates the history

But soon after arriving

She was indeed healthy and strong

thank you very much

his Aboriginality

Perhaps if she wins the tree-climbing at the Bush Olympics her mother might notice her again

Being brilliant has never been this dangerous

With tumbling rhymes and an infectious sense of humour

of turmoil and understanding and joy

It was her mother s most prized possession and she gave it tender loving care

not a monster

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