Part 2. Landscape and Place

Table of Contents

3. The redemptive frontier: a long road to nowhere

A track of decolonisation

Flight to the frontier

On the track of the lone artist

Dancing for Palka-karrinya

References

4. Transcending nostalgia: pastoralist memory and staking a claim in the land

Memory and public history in central Australia

History begins – the arrival as homecoming

The land is transformed

Knowing the land

Conclusion

References

5. Water as collaborator

The view from Geary’s Gap

The view to the south of Canberra Airport

The child’s drawing – the haunting landscape

The continuing conversation

Lake George

The drawing

Clarifying the ambiguous landscape

Water as collaborator

References

6. You call it desert – we used to live there

References