Jacqueline Lo

This chapter focuses on Marrugeku's Indigenous-governed intercultural practice that is grounded in and guided by Country and its custodians. Yawuru leader Mick Dodson describes “Country” as “a word for the values, places, resources, stories and cultural obligations associated with that area and its features. It describes the entirety of our ancestral domains”. Writing from their different positions as Indigenous and settler Australians, the authors address the aftermath of the historic referendum for The Voice in Parliament, which proposed to provide permanent representation and recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Constitution. If the Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to meet across the divide of Indigenous and settler Australia, can Indigenous-governed interculturalism serve as a model for working across the different histories, subjectivities and socialities that make up multicultural Australia towards treaty and truth-telling? Marrugeku's production, Jurrungu Ngan-ga, which confronts Australia's shameful fixation with incarceration by connecting outrageous levels of Indigenous imprisonment to the indefinite detaining of asylum seekers, will be used as a case study to exemplify the company's innovative Indigenous-governed aesthetics and politics as a form of staging Makarrata.

At Bantaeng in South Sulawesi a new industrial scale port will be built to serve the KIBA industrial precinct where smelters produce nickel for global electric vehicle battery markets. A 1-2Mtpa low-carbon geopolymer concrete plant is proposed for precast production of some 1,600 port modules as well as other infrastructure requiring some 750,000 cum of concrete and thereafter the plant can be repurposed for other products for local markets such as reef modules and wall panels. Geopolymer concrete can be the replacement for conventional concrete and be made from wastederived materials thereby having a significantly lower carbon footprint. The plant is designed to be operated by renewable energy and an energy audit estimated that a 1Mtpa geopolymer production plant needs 100-200 GWh pa to operate. This could be served by a renewable energy power station with a mix of wind turbines and solar PV farm producing green hydrogen for energy storage and electric fuel cells. In the option of PV50%+wind50%+hydrogenstorage the total cost was estimated to be ∃20-30M USD. If electricity is assumed ∃100/MWh then this is worth ∃10-20M USD pa and the payback is 15 years approx.