Before arriving in Dubbo, we understood as journalism students the importance of listening to Indigenous perspectives. These voices are far too often omitted from the media landscape.

David Towney (R) is a proud Wiradjuri man. He discussed land-care techniques, such as firestick farming, and said that by adopting these “tried-and-true” methods we could work with nature, not against it. He put it eloquently when he said: “People think that Aboriginal culture, or the knowledge, has gone. It hasn’t gone, it’s just lain dormant in a lot of stories. And we see that as Aboriginal people. We know things are not lost… hopefully one day people wake up to that. And that’s just about a re-education.”