Abstract
‘Autobiography’ is a creative narrative in which Bondi Beach tells its life story. ‘Autobiography’ is written from the perspective of a place that underwent transformation from one carefully managed by Aboriginal people to one despoiled by settler colonisers. In Bondi’s story, defacement and overexploitation continue apace today under the weight of a culture that has no guiding or binding philosophy of the environment and whose members share only shallow and tenuous relationships with the beach’s physical elements. Bondi knows that all beaches have lifespans determined by geological climatic regimes. However, it fears that rapidly increasing levels of human-generated carbon pollution will tip the earth into a new geo-climatic regime that will bring higher sea levels and a premature death.
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