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Virtual Warrane is the work of Indigenous digital artist Brett Leavy, inspired by convict artist, Joseph Lycett, who captured not only the early settlement of Sydney but scenes of Indigenous people engaging in food gathering, ceremony and hunting.
Usually, participants soak in the 360-degree spectacle of Sydney without challenge to a westernised perspective of this land and harbour. For this inaugural Burrawa climb, however, we learn legendary stories as we walk atop the steel span of the bridge, which some 250,000 Australians walked across more than 20 years ago in a march for reconciliation. All dressed in jumpsuits and harnesses, our guides teach us “putawá”, which according to the slim diaries kept by the first fleet engineer and astronomer Lieutenant William Dawes in 1790-91 means “to warm ones [sic] hand by the fire & then...
On today's program: Alpine businesses say insurance costs have quadrupled this year following the bushfires and many are struggling to afford it. Mt Buller businesses owner John Perks managed to clinch a deal this week just hours after become uninsured following months of searching for a policy. But it's nearly four times the cost of his normal insurance and he's worried many won't be able to afford it, particularly since many haven't earned any real income since September last year. He thinks there's a 'market failure' and the state government needs to step in to insure properties up there. ...