'People are angry and upset and scared and feeling hopeless.' Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett tells us about the emotions behind the Australian brushfires
The whole world is watching Australia right now. How are people feeling where you are?
It’s a really low mood. People are angry and upset and scared and feeling hopeless — and trying to find ways to help out of that hopeless feeling. People have banded together really strongly out of desperation and a lack of help and guidance from our government. Communities have banded together to make change and protest. People just want to help.
You mentioned anger at the Australian government’s response to this crisis. What are people angry about, specifically? We’ve always had bushfires in this country. It’s not like it’s a brand new thing. I think people are angry because it’s about more than that. It’s about climate change denial, and it’s also a class war. There’s volunteer firefighters who the government refuses to help. The government have taken away funding from those people. And not to mention that our country, white Australia — we stole the land from indigenous people, and then we’ve ruined it over the last 200 years.
The flyer you made for the shows acknowledges that they were held on land that traditionally belonged to the indigenousIt’s one of the most important things here. We can talk about how [the crisis] affects us and our future, but a lot of the time we forget that it’s stolen land. We’ve slowly ruined it, and we don’t listen to people who know more about the land than we do. It’s important to keep talking about that.
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