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It was an academic retreat just to the north of the McDonnell Range, which is itself to the north of Alice Springs in what is characterized so inappropriately as the ‘dead heart’ of Australia. It was physically, intellectually and emotionally confronting. The location was a deserted cattle station 5 kilometres along a dirt track, off the road to Yuendemu, the site of the modern rebirth of Australian Aboriginal art.
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Wright, D. (2015). Drama and Ecological Understanding. In: Vettraino, E., Linds, W. (eds) Playing in a House of Mirrors. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-118-2_17
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