Lee Tran Lam
An Interview with Jody Orcher
Lee Tran Lam: There’s booming interest in native ingredients, but only one per cent of Australia’s bush food companies are Indigenous-owned.
Jody Orcher: It’s not about bush food, it’s about access to Country. It’s about rights to water. Bush food is another thing where Aboriginal people are being used for their cultural knowledge and not to have any benefits or any employment or anything. Where I come from, there’s heaps of kurrajong seeds, saltbush, kangaroo grasses. If we could have access to those things, we could harvest them. If we could harvest them, we could have access to land. If we had land, we’d be able to sell them, we’d have jobs.