47 | We Must Be Heard

Clare Wright talks to Yves and producer Matt about the research journey behind her latest book Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions

Episode 5 of the Archive Fever podcast, hosted by Claire Wright and Yves Rees, titled "47 | We Must Be Heard" was published on November 29, 2024 and runs 42 minutes.

November 29, 2024 ·42m · Archive Fever

Summary

Today on Archive Fever the tables are turned, and interviewer turns interviewee. Co-host Clare Wright jumps in the hot seat to tell Yves and producer Matt Smith about the research journey behind her latest book Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions (Text, 2024)—the final work in her Democracy Trilogy, an award-winning series that uses the material heritage of Australian democracy to retell how the people acquired a voice. How to incorporate Yolngu ways of being and knowing into a linear historical narrative? What does it mean to practice truth telling a year on from the unsuccessful Voice referendum? Where did Clare uncover a long-lost fourth copy of the bark petition? And what does Joan Didion have to do with any of this?

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