Because children can let their essence take control, it is important for you to help them to continually learn to be in control. You tell them, say, about the bandicoot essence that they have. It starts from this age and you tell the stories over and over and over. So then your children know themselves so well they are on their way to becoming

to follow the map — by pumping for about ten minutes through the umbilical cord to the baby. It is important, not only to your baby’s journey but to life itself, that the beginning of all Miwis’ journeys are not interfered with. There is a great need to have a nominated person there, usually the grandmother, who has been instructed to ensure that

When the old people used to home birth even without ceremony the placenta was placed in the ground. Nungeena-tya benefited

We were all given the spiritlight by the Creator; so were the plants, the ants, everything. So as we hurt, destroy or dishonour Creation, we hurt, destroy and dishonour our own lives.

For example, if we accept that anger is part of who we are, when we recognise we are angry we have a chance to construct, dig, build, and carry heavy burdens with the strength that anger builds within us. Likewise too much compassion, and we drown in it. To have compassion is to give, tend and nurture, but in our perfectly imperfect state, this can

I want to bring back ‘thinking’ places. I want to bring back the songs. I want to bring back the stories. I want to bring back the sense of belonging. I want to help with the healing.

I can tell within a few hundred metres when I’m moving from one tribal area to another. It’s just so different; it’s unbelievable how different it is. One part of me can’t understand that people can’t see this difference between one tribal land and another

Women’s business has to do with a way of life that keeps families and communities together supporting each other. It’s walking every day and living every day a spirituality of helping each other and especially caring for the Earth, our mother, Nungeena-tya, who is dying around us.

here. In none of the languages in this country was there a word for thank you. How can you be thanked if you are part of the Oneness? What is there to thank? Everything has its place and its part in this Oneness.