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Moving around: an interview with Stephen Muecke

Healy, Chris ( 1999)

Moving around: an interview with Stephen Muecke. HEALY: Reading the country, the book you coauthored in 1984 with Krim Benterrak and Paddy Roe, is dedicated ‘to the nomads of Broome, always there and always on the move’. What do you make of that dedication now? MUEKE: When I worked in the Kimberley in the late seventies and through the eighties I was experiencing a frontier complex of cultures. Land rights were under negotiation. For nearly a hundred years whitefellas had been ‘settling’ and imposing pastoral and mining economies of exploitation; blackfellas were being displaced yet had obviously always belonged. Whitefellas and Asians were part of diasporic movements. People were moving around a lot, in modes quite unlike, say, suburban commuting.