SUKUNDIMI WALKS BEFORE ME – Australian Q&A Tour starts in Canberra on 16 September 2026

The Sepik River is the mother line for Papua New Guinea communities. She winds through mountains and rainforests, the crucial vertebrae connecting and supporting the rare biodiversity and spiritual consciousness of the region. But her livelihood and her communities are threatened by the proposal of a copper-gold mine being built at her headwaters, which risks extracting, eroding and polluting an environment that has been sustained by her for millennia. The children of this river, led by Manu Peni, create a grassroots campaign to stop the mine from being built, resisting the forces of colonial bureaucracy and Western narratives of ‘development’ by invoking Indigenous and ancestral knowledge.
Written by Matasila Freshwater
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