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This country is nothing

Without you


Walingera


This country is all

Because of you


Walingera


You are

The fire that has given me warmth


You are

The home that I have for so long, longed


You are

Place where I belong


I belong Walingera

Because of you


You have shown me

That country is buried in our chest


That country

Is lived not bequest


You have shown us

That love and laughter is soil


You have given us

So much so freely


Walingera


There is no homecoming

Without you


Walingera


Home is not a distant

Land from which our grandfather walked


Walingera


I know now

That home is you


Home is the love where I rest

This home is surest


With you Walingera

With you


I have never been displaced

Nor destitute


Dispossessed

Nor possessed


Walingera


I am home

Because of you


I am here

Because of you

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Romaine Moreton, “Walingera (Old Woman)”, Commonwealth Essays and Studies [Online], 44.2 | 2022, Online since 25 February 2022, connection on 14 January 2025. URL: http://0-journals-openedition-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/ces/11123; DOI: https://0-doi-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/10.4000/ces.11123

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About the author

Romaine Moreton

Dr Romaine Moreton is Goenpul Yagerabul Minjungbul Bundjalung from Tjerangeri (Stradbroke Island) and what is now northern New South Wales. Romaine is the Director of First Nations & Outreach at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). A writer of poetry, prose, and film, and a philosopher, she has published three collections of poetry, Rimfire (Magabala, 2000), the CD-book Post Me to the Prime Minister (IAD Press, 2004), and Poems from a Homeland (Hatje Cantz, 2012), and directed two short films, The Farm (2009), and The Oysterman (2012). While a Research Fellow Filmmaker in Residence at Monash, she completed the transmedia work One Billion Beats, that examined the historical representation of Aboriginal people in Australian cinema. Prior to that, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Newcastle and worked on a project about Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property in the digital space. With Dr Lou Bennett, Romaine has been working closely with AFTRS over the last two years on a first-of-its-kind Indigenous Curriculum for screen and broadcast, focussed through the lens of ethics and aesthetics.

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