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My Mother’s Keeper Karla Dickens

There is a growing rebellion over the silence and inactivity of our country’s powerbrokers and general populace regarding climate change. We are living in a time when this rebellion is being portrayed as an inconvenience and calls for protest to only take place through established means.

Lismore-based Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens has long been involved in green politics – she started with Greenpeace some thirty years ago. The same arguments and discussions keep being repeated over and over, year in

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