Red Dust Entry Four: Kicking Up Dust
“This is how we do it,” Aunty Nandy would tell me, teaching me to make island scones or cook enough rice and yam for a horde of hungry dancers.
Red Dust Entry Three: Sticky Fingers
It’s amazing, the confidence of these children to physically communicate with absolute strangers.
Red Dust Entry Two- Bright Skin and Sky Eyes
In the communities, you will hear people refer to themselves as black or white skinned. It’s generally not meant in a derogatory way, but simply as a straight-to-the-point way of speaking, common to the region.
Red Dust Entry One: Wet Season
In Queensland, it seems the further north you go, the slower things become. The people run on what we call ‘island time’.