Using as a Mentor Text (Craft Moves) (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Sovereign geological testimony

Writing AS the landscape, giving Country its own voice

Land with consciousness, memory & authority as narrator

4-layer structure showing past persists in present

Deep time, colonial rupture, contemporary, sovereign return

Blending scientific & Indigenous language in same sentences

Both knowledge systems coexist & enhance each other

Was [Indigenous name] / now [colonial name]

Persistent memory; Country bears witness despite erasure

150 (deep time), 200 (colonial), 200 (contemp), 250 (sovereign)