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Impact of climate change on Indigenous communities
2016-04-14 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: When singer, songwriter, storyteller and music therapist Getano Bann talks about climate change he talks about connection to country. Mr Bann draws on a tradition of telling "life stories" to build empathy, asking people to imagine themselves as an ancestor on an island in the Torres Strait, at the beginning of time. "This is your island and you grow old and you have children," he said. "Then for thousands and thousands of years your children have told the story of you: our ancestor who's...
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