Why do brumbies evoke such passion? It's all down to the high country's cultural myth-makers
- Written by Pete Minard, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of the Inland, La Trobe University., La Trobe University
Brumby activists and environmentalists seem fundamentally unable to understand one another, despite having a lot in common. They share a love of the high country but are divided over the value or threat of wild horses.
Their mutual incomprehension has been fuelled by historically contested ideas about wildness, and the proper ways in which people...