Join 2023 Stella Prize shortlisted author Dr Debra Dank as she has a rich and stimulating discussion with the fabulous Jazz Money.

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Dr Debra Dank is Gudanji/Wakaja, from the Barkly Tablelands in the Northern Territory of Australia.

For almost 40 years she has worked in a variety of roles in primary, secondary and tertiary education across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory in urban and remote contexts. She is particularly interested in how narrative is practiced in Aboriginal communities and why semiotics is critical to understanding the breadth of communicative mechanisms and functions in this practice.

Her first book, We come with this place, won an unprecedented four categories in the 2023 NSW Premier’s awards, The University of Queensland 2023 Non-Fiction Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for 2023. It was also shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize, the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance and the People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award and the Nonfiction Award at the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.