Miica Balint  co-editor

A bush kid from the Kimberley, Western Australia, where stories are as natural as the humid air we breathe. Now a grown-up in age but not in attitude, living in Bundjalung Nation. From the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, the North Atlantic to the South, stories have spellbound me towards the curious and the simple, landing me here. A resident gardener, ecology empath, surf rat, adorer of art and experimenter of most; tell me something unusual or teach me something new, and my intrigue is assured. 




Conservation and Ecological Repair: Butterfly Highways

Miica Balint
04.06.2025

Three explorations of conservation in our region. The first, an intimate experience with Australia’s largest butterfly. 

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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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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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Wispy Dreads SouthMiica Balint, film McTavish, photography Jill Bontempo
29.09.2024

Wispy speaks to the secluded breaks 
of our mountainous Antarctic-nearing relative.

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The Azure Kingfisher
Miica Balint, photography Jill Bontempo
01.09.2024

Watch birds, volunteer your time, go to 
therapy. Andrew Fraser of Pasiflorez 
and Bodalla. 

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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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Duck Rodeo
Jordan Rochfort, photography Miica Balint 19.07.2024

An introduction to the new Art Gallery in Lismore, Flying Arch. 

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Tinariwen

Miica Balint, photography Jill Bontempo
05.07.2024

The pioneers of soul-rectifying desert blues. This is a love letter of sorts, to a band, to a story of rebellion, to a photographer.

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I shaved my armpits for Nic Munnelly 
Miica Balint, photography Jill Bontempo
24.05.2024

I did. I also ate two boiled eggs and was on my second coffee, black, by the time I met Jill and Nic at ten am. 

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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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Bayou’s Charlie and Tom
Miica Balint
21.06.2024 

Tom used to roll through Bayou asking for a job. Now he owns it. And lives above it.

Longtime partner and friend of the mag, he gives us our film and guilts us to surf.

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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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In conversation with Holly Wawn
Miica Balint, photography Adam Robertson
10.02.2024

Probing on puny details and making
average poems out of it.

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The Art Exhibition That 
Commemorated 
our Launch
Miica Balint, Kate Middeleer
05.05.2024

A look into twelve artists in our region. We figured there is no more apt a launch to a collaborative magazine, than by way of a group art exhibition.

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