The Deepest Grief is the grief for Country

The Theme of this year’s Byron Writers Festival was ‘Radical Hope’ – but Chelsea Watego wore a T- shirt with F….Hope emblazoned across it.

As she laughingly points out in the interview, no wonder they didn’t ask her to sit on that panel!

This read starts with a personal grief that she then extrapolates to the national grief of First Nations people – and she says -it is a deeper, unending grief- that needs more than two weeks leave to assuage.

Chelsea Watego The Read

Chelsea Watego – The Interview

Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2022