Dr Mariko Smith
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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The owner literally was like, you know, keep the lights on at night.
Like it gets scary.
I think people need to realise that
These are places of reverence and, yes, indeed of sorrow, but also just the magnitude of really realizing what happened in these places.
And I think it gets a bit removed because it's hard to reconcile when you're in sort of today's world.
This is Mariko Smith.
Waluoni Ninjiwon.
Hello, everyone.
Well, I think it'd be worth unpacking how the term dark tourism applies in the Australian context, since it seems primarily focused on places of death and suffering.
It could be quite focused on the macabre, the morbid, be quite lurid in its representation.
And this can perpetuate trauma and negative status quo for First Nations people regarding their sites and their histories.
And, you know, there's a negative connotation here too.
Seems like, you know, you've got dark versus light.
I mean, that sort of imagery as well where, you know, the positive stories are the mainstream stories where the more darker, I guess, if you want to use that word, the more unpleasant sides of history are designated to this alternate offering, which has been termed as dark tourism.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a connotation here that is, you know, one-sided benefit, exploitation and entertainment at others' expense.
Yeah, I think it'd be really good to reframe the concept here because I think we need to keep in mind tourism.
the bigger picture, the objective here, which is to give the public a better understanding of the full spectrum of details in, for instance, Australia's complex and, yes, quite harrowing aspects in its colonial history.
And so I would see it as being reframed as like truth-telling histories, moving away from that word tourism, too, because of that particular connotation's
focusing on how this could be an opportunity to give a platform for agency to First Nations peoples themselves to tell their own stories in ways which are no holds bar accounts of colonial history, but are done in more culturally appropriate and respectful ways on their own terms.
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