What is a river to you?
Miica Balint
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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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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Federal’s Flower Duende
Scarlett 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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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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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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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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An Open Letter to the Premier of 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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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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What The Flip is Syntropic
Miica Balint
28.05.2024
Forest dynamics and reconciling
humans with the planet.
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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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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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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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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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You’re Treading on a
Gentle Revolution
Miica Balint
10.05.2024
Soil and watching plants grow.
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