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  • Published: 27 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761350658
  • Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $36.99
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Australia's Agricultural Identity - an Aboriginal yarn





Using his family farm and story as the foundation of his yarning, a young, entrepreneurial Worimi man leaps into the discussion of agriculture on this land on which we live, its past, but more importantly, its future

Yarning across history and into the future, Joshua Gilbert explores a new approach to Indigenous culture and farming, combining ancient knowledge and practices with new technology and insights.
Starting from his own Worimi country, where his family history is captured in the journals of the Australian Agricultural Company – among the earliest written records of agricultural practice on this continent – Josh listens to yarns about the farming that has always been and continues to take place on that country, which demonstrate that Indigenous culture is not static; it can account for and inform our approaches to land and climate even as they are changing.
As he contemplates these yarns and histories, Josh seeks to provide a new understanding that Australians, as a nation of farmers and land managers, need to develop our agricultural system into one where Indigenous and Western knowledges converge. One where we acknowledge the realities of Australia’s farming heritage and find ways to feed our population while caring for country and ensuring the livelihood of Australia’s farming towns.
He explores what it means to be an Aboriginal person today, what it means to be a farmer and even what it means to say you are Australian. Where these notions overlap, and how we might start to weave a common story. So that we can create a truly Australian agricultural yarn – one that we all build together.

  • Published: 27 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761350658
  • Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $36.99
Categories:

About the author

Joshua Gilbert

Josh is a socially and commercially focused Worimi man with extensive experience across Indigenous affairs, the environmental sector and sustainable agriculture. Josh works across government, corporate and social organisational levels to develop and lead change through sharing the narration of Indigenous identity through agricultural and environmental truth-telling in light of modern contexts. Josh is a deep, strategic thinker and manages business change effectively through empathy. He is passionate about creating change through effective investment and societal understanding.

Josh is undertaking a PhD at Charles Sturt University, focused on the concept of Indigenous modernity through agriculture. He was recently recognised internationally for his work, announced in the inaugural 50 Next: People Shaping the Future of Gastronomy cohort. Josh is on the board for Indigenous Business Australia, the NSW Aboriginal Housing Office, KU Children's Services and the Australian Conservation Foundation and is the Aboriginal Co-Chair of Reconciliation NSW.

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