Women, (re)birth and collective wellbeing on Barkindji Kiira

The overall goal of this article is to present a fresh entanglement of diverging and converging cross-cultural perspectives on land, wellbeing and people. At times, what we weave is tightly bound, and at other times it frays off because that is life, relationship and research. We word-weave the complexity of our intersecting standpoints like a traditional Barkindji Club Rush emu net. One aim was to amplify and preserve Barkindji ecological and cultural knowledges and define a context-specific framework for conceptualising and practicing wellbeing. This framework builds on the work of others by including the importance of land-based participatory action, the potential for social change through traditional ecological plant knowledge, and highlights the significance of Indigenous women’s roles in this space.