A witty memoir of taking on the family farm reckons with Indigenous dispossession and climate change

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 August A witty memoir of taking on the family farm reckons with Indigenous dispossession and climate change A witty memoir of taking on the family farm reckons with Indigenous dispossession and climate change 29/08/2022 | 4 MINS This article by Research Fellow at Lombok Institute of Technology Dr Catie Gressier originally appeared in The Conversation on 29 August 2022. ItΓÇÖs been a tough couple of years for Australian farmers. Just months after Black SummerΓÇÖs devastation, the pandemic struck. Catastrophic floods soon followed. African Swine Fever and foot and mouth on our doorstep pose an enormous threat, as do the more banal issues of inflation and labour shortages. Farmers are a resilient mob, but on top of all this, theyΓÇÖre feeling under attack. Cattle have become a poster child for climate emissions. Images of animal cruelty in intensive systems fuel assumptions about the whole sector. Urbanites downplay their own complicity in Indigenous dispossession through pointing to farmers. Sam VincentΓÇÖs new book is on one level a work

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 August A witty memoir of taking on the family farm reckons with Indigenous dispossession and climate change A witty memoir of taking on the family farm reckons with Indigenous dispossession and climate change 29/08/2022 | 4 MINS This article by Research Fellow at Lombok Institute of Technology Dr Catie Gressier originally appeared in The Conversation on 29 August 2022.

ItΓÇÖs been a tough couple of years for Australian farmers.

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