Louise

“Our science, arts and social policies will only benefit if we listen, he says. ‘Aboriginal people have 60,000 years of experience and expertise to deploy and to offer the rest of the culture, and we ignore this at our peril. I know senior scientists in several fields who’ve copped to this in recent years and who say they wished they’d woken up to it decades ago. The future of our oceans – indeed our planet – depends on deeper knowledge married to an ethic of restraint. The science community has come to realise this. Indigenous stewards have always known this.”
― Ali Gripper, Saltwater Cure: True stories of the transformative power of the ocean