The concept of everywhen is the focus of a new book, Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History, which brings together a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars to reflect on time, language and history.
At the opening of the symposium, when the authors first gathered, Ngunnawal elder Tyronne Bell passed around a collection of stone artefacts found on his Country – tools that his ancestors had crafted that are powerful connections to his family and to Country, which is now the nation’s capital. Holding them in our hands, we wondered how many thousands of years ago they were made. Rather
