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Table 1 The Carers of Everything (Moondang-ak Kaaradjiny) by Noel Nannup

From: Indigenous landscaping and biophilic urbanism: case studies in Noongar Six Seasons

I have a science degree which enables me to understand how the world is understood to work by people in the tradition of modern western science. I am also an elder in the Noongar tradition and my totem ‘Karda’ is the race-horse goanna. I try to integrate the western knowledge and the Noongar knowledge [50]. In the Noongar tradition I have a perspective shaped by people who have lived here for so long even modern western science finds it hard to be specific. It’s a long time. Multiple generations have thus been passing on their knowledge through stories and songlines and how to simply survive through the Noongar Six Seasons, using all the fruits of the landscape for this gift of life [49]

I run guided tours along songlines showing how we can gather intuitive knowledge from the bush and from listening to The Carers of Everything (Moondang-ak Kaaradjiny) [40] which are the spirits that remain from previous time and are able to give us the knowledge that enables us to care for the land and the community. We also go camping so that we can sit around a fire and yarn about the stories in the area

At the University of Western Australia I help to run a gathering at the start of each of our Six Seasons, for staff and students that helps to orient ourselves to the next two months of weather, plant flowering and related stories. This is held in the Business School. It attracts considerable interest as people are looking for a better understanding of our place and how to be more respectful of those who went before us