Romaine Moreton – May 26 2019

National Reconciliation Week – May 27 – June 3

This year’s theme is ‘Grounded in Truth Walk Together with Courage’. The journey towards reconciliation requires the relationship between the broader Australian community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to be grounded in a foundation of truth, and requires all of us to walk together with courage.

Romaine is a writer, film maker and performance poet. Two of her short films, Cherish and Redreaming the Dark, were shown at the Cannes Film Festival 1999 and Romaine was selected as part of a group in 2007 to participate in a project by the Australian Film Commission designed to nurture and assist the talents of upcoming Indigenous filmmakers. Romaine’s performance poetry has been included in two music compilations, ‘Sending a Message’ and ‘Fresh Salt’. Her directorial debut film, The Farm, premiered at the Message Sticks Film Festival in 2009, and aired on the ABC later that year. Romaine holds a Master of Arts in Screenwriting from the Australian Film Television & Radio School and a PhD from Western Sydney University. She was recently appointed to the position of Research Fellow/Filmmaker-in-Residence in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University.

Rimfire
Magabala Books, 2000; ISBN 9781875641598

Rimfire is the powerful work of three Indigenous poets, Romaine Moreton, Alf Taylor and Michael J Smith, who speak of the common experience of Aboriginal people amidst the universal themes of love, life and loss. Rising from the black underbelly of a country that has systematically dispossessed Indigenous people, these poems echo with the call for justice, inclusion and equality.

Post Me to the Prime Minister
Jukurrpa Books, 2004; ISBN 9781864650617

This first-ever comprehensive collection of the forward-looking poems of Romaine Moreton includes reflections on origins, dispossession, dislocation and identity, on mudcrabs, love and petrol-sniffing.