When Ruth Dawkins’ husband got a job halfway around the world 10 years ago, she wasn’t convinced. But a rosella and a rainbow changed her mind
The warm air that day was thick with smoke from bushfires – down the Huon Valley this time – and the speeches by local politicians were drowned out by raucous squawks from a flock of cockatoos overhead.There are people we miss, of course. We are a long way from many friends and family members we love, and it would be easier if it didn’t take two full days’ air travel and several months’ salary to visit them.
Not long after our big move, we were advised that the best way to approach Tasmania is to live like a tourist – to enjoy the restaurants and beaches and festivals without getting too caught up in the complexities of the place. I can certainly understand that temptation. There are intricate histories here: longstanding allegiances and unseen alliances that are impossible to wrap your head around. Local politics can feel slow-moving, conservative, and frustratingly lacking in transparency.
But I think you owe it to a place – especially when you are a guest on the unceded lands of people who have called this island home for at least 30,000 years – to live with more care and respect than a tourist. At the very least you have to remain curious: aware of how little you know and how much there is to learn.
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