Most recent: What
is a river to you?
Miica Balint

The night sky is jet black in my country, the naked eye can see every void, every star-filled fold that would otherwise be hidden by a musky blanket of light pollution. Tidal flats bulge and recede to the pull of the moon, ancient ancestors swim with watchful eyes open, moving through warm silk with skin thicker than any bullet. Mangroves secure themselves in shifting tides dedicatedly, spreading their netted, snorkel-like roots, while mudcrabs and molluscs burrow. 

The movement lines of water in the Kimberley replicate trees, root-systems, mountain ranges, mycelium; a sight from above which remains the most remarkable piece of art I have seen. Enchanting when I was five years old on my first solo flight from Broome to Perth, and every single time since. 

I reminisce on where I come from, my boodja, birthplace, because I have had the privilege of asking the organisers of this year’s Riverfest the same one question; what is a river to you? Which has unfurled my own imagining.

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Conservation and Ecological Repair: Butterfly Highways

Miica Balint
04.06.2025

An ocean flooded with topsoil and toxic agricultural run-off, ecological despair, and a number of animal-related occurrences have had me thinking of conservation recently. 

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Wukalina Walk

Miica Balint, photography Alec Baker
22.04.2025

What the Palawa people have done with land rights in Wukalina to Larapuna returned, marks how custodianship, guided by reciprocity, respect and relationality, is the way to heal. 

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When the river runs black

Tom Wolff
22.04.2025 

A confronting acknowledgement of the suffocating death that blackwater brings to our river systems. A reality that can leave one feeling devoid of hope, but a call to action nonetheless.  

“Rivers bear the greatest brunt of collective mistakes made over many generations.”

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An Open Letter to the Premierof NSW
Tom Wolff 
28.03.2025

Sent this morning with 763 signatures to Chris Minns. 

I wish you saw with your own eyes what I have witnessed every day this week: eels, crabs, fish and prawns gasping for oxygen; literally suffocating in the river that is their home. These animals are the victims of a history they played no part in creating.

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The Environmental Inflection Point
Dan Leverington
14.02.2025

The year 2025 brings with it reflection on 
where  we sit with climate action. 
‘We’ being--broadly--our nation, most 
specifically,  our region. From The Big 
Scrub, to the Aquarius Festival, 
to B Corp’s.

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Federal’s flower duendeScarlett Rogers, photography Jemma Enright
14.02.2025    

Fangin’ for flowers. 
Luen talks DJing and dahlia tubers, gardening, and its powers to connect

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A Riverbed Tributary 
and The Biggest Estate on Earth
plant profiling with Daniel Souza 
06.01.2025

Symbiotic balance, a reflection on the
 state of our relationship with our planet, 
a consideration for understanding 
the whole picture.

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Cass, the Maids, and the Saints
Miica Balint, photography Montana Cooper 27.10.2024

A regenerative farming tangent and an exploration of belonging, learning and experimenting. With Cass Hynes.
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The Quiet That Holds Us
Elena Klonsky, photography Beatriz Ryder
29.10.2024

Ancestral memory, the ocean, and the encroaching reality of climate change.

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Syntropic Farming: How The Flip?
Miica Balint
20.07.2024

The practical information for implementing a syntropic system. Our hope in the desert of traditional monoculture farming practices? An agroforestry system of reciprocity and abundance.

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The Endless Possibilities of the Banana Blossom
plant profiling with Daniel Souza
09.09.2024

This ode begins with a gift. Which I 
must say, to this day, I still don’t 
know if it was truly meant for me.

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The humble friends that brought
me back to Earth

plant profiling with Daniel Souza
14.07.2024

Paperbark trees and beauty in subtleties.

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Imagine Naming Your Child Turpentine
plant profiling with Daniel Souza
08.06.2024

Let this be an ode to the incredibly 
special nature of Australian flora. 
The first; the turpentine tree.

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What The Flip is Syntropic

Miica Balint
28.05.2024

Forest dynamics and reconciling 
humans with the planet.

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You’re Treading on a
Gentle Revolution
Miica Balint 
10.05.2024

Soil and watching plants grow.

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