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Moonrise Opera

A Manuscript About Law, Justice and Dreaming in the Aboriginal North

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Moonrise Opera

By: Chris Howse
Narrated by: Chris Howse
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A job as a deckhand on a shark fishing boat in Bass Strait for law student Chris Howse, begets a quest to keep a journal of his dreams as a way of exploring who he is and what he should do and as an antidote to a seemingly lazy zeitgeist.

Via the shark boats, the occupation of a barrister at the Victorian Bar and work as a tram conductor in Melbourne (in that order), his dreams lead him to the heart of Aboriginal Australia at the Katherine Regional Aboriginal Legal Aid Service and subsequently to Darwin and the bush courts of the Northern Territory, acting on behalf of the Aboriginal people.

As he fights in the courts for the rights of his Aboriginal clients, his dream journal undergoes a renaissance.

©2025 Chris Howse (P)2025 Chris Howse
Australia, New Zealand & Oceania Social Sciences
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