122. Regenerating Australia Live in Leederville
With Damon Gameau, Heidi Mippy, Di Haggerty & Oral McGuire
Damon Gameau, the award-winning director of That Sugar Film and 2040, toured his new film Regenerating Australia around Western Australia’s south a few weeks ago. Joining him on the panel in Leederville was highly regarded First Nations woman Heidi Mippy, Natural Intelligence Farming co-founder Dianne Haggerty, and me. Ballardong Noongar man, Oral McGuire, who you’ll have heard mentioned a bit on this podcast (like in eps 87 and 105), granted us the privilege of his powerful Welcome to Country. And as you’ll hear, in some ways, proceedings on this night presaged the transformative federal election that was to come two days later (see episode 121 for more on that).
“And that’s this movement happening with these independents. And I think of Cathy McGowan as well, now Helen Haines, who actually take their constituents into Parliament House and they rotate. She takes them in every couple of weeks, to teach them how the democratic process works. To inspire the next group to come through that might want to be leaders. That is regeneration in our democracy, and it’s happening right now. ”
Incidentally, I’ll release the inspiring panel conversations from Margaret River and Fremantle for subscribers to the podcast on Patreon – so do jump on there if you haven’t yet! And I ended up hosting the Busselton event, where a very distinct conversation took place – I’ll have that out for you all to hear soon. For now, it’s over to Leederville, where 300 people came along for this final west coast screening, the penultimate event of Damon’s national tour.
Oral’s Welcome – 3.00m
Damon’s entry at the end of the film & panel exchange – 9.00m
Questions from the audience – 21.45m
This panel conversation was recorded at Luna Cinema in Leederville, Perth, on 19 May 2022.
Get more:
Regenerating Australia is available for community screenings now (and grant applications, requests for materials etc.).
It’ll also screen at the Beverley Town Hall, in the wheatbelt of WA, on 17 June, with panel conversation featuring Oral McGuire, Di Haggerty, Grant Revell & Damon Gameau (online), hosted by Anthony James.
And for more on the RCS Australia conference.
You can also hear my previous conversations with Damon on the podcast for episodes 30 (just as 2040 was being finished), 38 (when it premiered in Perth), 77 (when 2021 began), and 108 (when Regenerating Australia was about to launch).
Music:
Regeneration, composed by Amelia Barden, from the soundtrack of the new film Regenerating Australia, available for community screenings now.