Dave Palmer

The methods used to track the history of mapping coastal areas has been highly reliant upon the journals, diaries, ships logs, maps and other accounts of European mariners that are presently available in the archival record. At times these records give some details of the part played by local Indigenous knowledge, skills, work and language. However, using these texts to arrive at authoritative conclusions about Indigenous influence in coastal exploration is far from reliable. This addresses re-visits some of the archival material concerned with coastal exploration along the southern areas of Western Australia, drawing out instances where Nyungar took ‘centre stage’ and where mariners where shaped by their desire for and reliance on Nyungar and Nyungar knowledge. In addition, to check and buttress these sources the paper draws upon Nyungar methods for ‘reading’ the history of contact along the southern coast. This includes seeking out Nyungar oral accounts, using knowledge of Nyungar language and place names, ‘reading’ old songs, visiting and listening to country and landscape, and using knowledge of Nyungar cultural forms as transmitted through the generations to ‘talk back’ to the old texts. It draws on the cultural experience and knowledge gained from koorling yirra Nyungar (growing up Nyungar), katajin Nyungar wangkiny (learning to speak the language) and katajin Nyungar (interpreting the ‘evidence’ using Nyungar ways of thinking). It takes the form of a dialogue between three friends and colleagues, two Nyungar and one Wedjela (non-Aboriginal), who have been koorliny katajin wangkiny Nyungar (going about thinking, talking and working this out) for many years. This dialogical structure will allow them to quiz each other and quiz the various historical sources.

The remote West Kimberley region in Western Australia presents a unique nature based tourism destination. Portrayed as one of the world’s last wildernesses, the region offers stunning natural landscapes, unparalleled nature-based experiences and a vibrant historic as well as contemporary Indigenous culture. Despite this there has been virtually no research into how the West Kimberley is valued by tourists, and spatially explicit investigations are lacking. State marine protected area planning, currently in a formative stage in the region, requires such spatially explicit social data to complement existing biophysical information. This paper reports on research with 42 tourists undertaken as part of a broader research project into socio-cultural values of the Kimberley coast. Analysis identified 16 key values associated with the West Kimberley coast, including aesthetics, recreation, therapeutic, physical landscape, Aboriginal cultural values, social values, learning and research, economic, subsistence , experiential, historical, spiritual, biodiversity, future bequest and existence. By highlighting values of importance to tourists and thus those requiring management attention, this research makes an important contribution to marine spatial planning in the West Kimberley.

The remote West Kimberley region in Western Australia presents a unique nature based tourism destination. Portrayed as one of the world’s last wildernesses, the region offers stunning natural landscapes, unparalleled nature-based experiences and a vibrant historic as well as contemporary Indigenous culture. Despite this there has been virtually no research into how the West Kimberley is valued by tourists, and spatially explicit investigations are lacking. State marine protected area planning, currently in a formative stage in the region, requires such spatially explicit social data to complement existing biophysical information. This paper reports on research with 42 tourists undertaken as part of a broader research project into socio-cultural values of the Kimberley coast. Analysis identified 16 key values associated with the West Kimberley coast, including aesthetics, recreation, therapeutic, physical landscape, Aboriginal cultural values, social values, learning and research, economic, subsistence , experiential, historical, spiritual, biodiversity, future bequest and existence. By highlighting values of importance to tourists and thus those requiring management attention, this research makes an important contribution to marine spatial planning in the West Kimberley.

The remote West Kimberley region in Western Australia presents a unique nature based tourism destination. Portrayed as one of the world’s last wildernesses, the region offers stunning natural landscapes, unparalleled nature-based experiences and a vibrant historic as well as contemporary Indigenous culture. Despite this there has been virtually no research into how the West Kimberley is valued by tourists, and spatially explicit investigations are lacking. State marine protected area planning, currently in a formative stage in the region, requires such spatially explicit social data to complement existing biophysical information. This paper reports on research with 42 tourists undertaken as part of a broader research project into socio-cultural values of the Kimberley coast. Analysis identified 16 key values associated with the West Kimberley coast, including aesthetics, recreation, therapeutic, physical landscape, Aboriginal cultural values, social values, learning and research, economic, subsistence , experiential, historical, spiritual, biodiversity, future bequest and existence. By highlighting values of importance to tourists and thus those requiring management attention, this research makes an important contribution to marine spatial planning in the West Kimberley.

This paper will describe a 3 year research project with marginalised and disenfranchised young people based in rural and regional Tasmania. In this project arts skills and processes where used to develop various forms of performance texts. These texts became the basis of a series of radio plays and performance projects with the objective of developing intergenerational relationships, promoting social inclusion and building identity. The research revealed how performative means can: • unleash creativity • expand horizons • build social bonds • create a sense of common experience • re-engage people experiencing dislocation and isolation with communities around them • provide pathways back to education and into employment • provide vitality to communities and quality of life. It is these artistic processes that allow young people to CELEBRATE (the present), HONOUR (the past), and ENVISION (the future).

In this chapter we show how a relational ontology can underpin education for sustainability, by locating the learning process within children’s own place and community. We show how an open, inquiry-based, relational approach can lead the children into a deeper understanding of the place and community that sustains them, and ultimately into a deeper sense of stewardship for that place. We show that sustainability education and values education can support each other.