Associate Professor of History, Adele Wessell approaches the river a little differently. Having lived in the Northern Rivers for 30 years and teaching history at Southern Cross University over that time, she’s developed a multi-layered relationship with the Richmond in Northern NSW on Widjabal Wia-bal Country.

Hers is personal, as well as professional and steeped in stories of the past – Indigenous and Colonial. She is a founding member of Richmond Riverkeeper as well as the Richmond River Historical Society and has completed a number of projects on local history… including the development of the Richmond River Open Access Repository. It's in the storytelling itself that Adele  sees a pathway to connection, and the subsequent care for the river that follows, when that connection is made.

In this episode hear the extraordinary story of the Red Cedars - the reasons for their extinction might surprise you - the actions that caused the wounds that the river carries today.

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This podcast has been made possible with support from the Australian Government through the Emergency Response Fund, administered by NSW Reconstruction Authority's Northern Rivers Recovery and Resilience Program 2022-23. Delivered by North Coast Regional Landcare Network through the Caring for Catchments project. Let’s work together, to make rivers swimmable, fishable and drinkable, worldwide. You, me, We Are The Riverkeepers