Between Pride and Despair: Stories of Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforests - Queensland Review: Special Issue (Vol. 28 No 2 (2021)) - Kerrie Foxwell-Norton
Reef and Rainforest Reflection: Beautiful Shells and their Connection to the Reef
Between Pride and Despair: Stories of Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforests - Queensland Review: Special Issue (Vol. 28 No 2 (2021)) - Kerrie Foxwell-Norton
Chrissy Grant [+]
Tourism Reef Advisory Committee / Reef 2050 Advisory Committee for the Great Barrier Reef
Chrissy Grant is an Aboriginal (Eastern Kuku Yalanji) and Torres Strait Islander
(Mualgal from Moa Island) Elder. She has worked on GBRMPA projects, including
the Strong Peoples —– Strong Country Framework, and is a Member of the
Tourism Reef Advisory Committee and the Reef 2050 Advisory Committee for
the Great Barrier Reef.
Description
Personal reflections from Chrissy Grant, an Aboriginal (Eastern Kuku Yalanji). As First Nations people with deep connections to Far North Queensland ‘Country’, their reflections demonstrate the enduring power of their cultural science and practice, and how these have also sometimes become enmeshed with Western systems of knowledge and management.