Listening to Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann (Podcast Collection)
Many Indigenous languages have a word that means something like “Deep Listening”. In Ngan'gikurunggurr, a Northern Territory language in Australia, that word is Dadirri. The following podcasts feature renowned Aboriginal elder and Senior Australian of the Year 2021, Dr Miriam Rose Ungunmerr Baumann, who advocates for Dadirri – Inner Deep Listening and Quiet Still Awarenessa — as a whole way of being.
Miriam Rose is a groundbreaking leader in remote Indigenous education, and a celebrated painter, activist, and speaker. In 1975, she became the Northern Territory’s first fully qualified Aboriginal teacher and a strong advocate for integrating art into mainstream education. In 1988, she established the Miriam Rose Foundation to help young Indigenous people “walk in two worlds”. In 2021, she was honoured as the Senior Australian of the Year — a recognition for a lifetime of work as a teacher and role model in her Daly River (Nauiyu) community.
Perhaps her greatest achievement however, is bringing the concept of Dadirri — an Aboriginal practice for thousands of years — to the world. Now, she’s calling on all of us to really listen to Indigenous people, and pay proper attention to the land we live in. [Text Source: ABC Radio National; BeyondBlue]
