About

hey there, 

I'm miki kovari.* 

I'm a Magyar (aka Hungarian) man born and raised on Gadigal land (aka Sydney, Australia).

My family left Magyarorszag (Hungary) in the 60s and 70s due to political, economic, and cultural oppression from the occupying Russian forces. Leaving their homeland meant relocating to someone else's land. By leaving their home because of colonisers, they became colonisers.

My parents joined the Australian colony and I was born a coloniser. We have contributed to the oppression of First Nations people by participating in the Western political-economic system imposed on people living on these lands. We have benefited from the genocide, dispossession, and oppression of First Nations Peoples. God that is hard to write and integrate. But it's true, and we have to face up to these truths so that we can do all that we can to try to repair the damage. It is impossible to achieve justice and rectify the crimes committed by this State and by my family's presence. 

I'm a coloniser, and for the past 20 years, I've been working to support First Nations people to decolonise these lands. I'm a white, western-educated, male trying to unlearn modern European-American cultural constructs so that I can participate in a nation of nations that centres First Nations Peoples and their ways of knowing, doing, and being. 

I've created this website/blog to co-create a community of interest. I'm interested in moving our lives, families, communities, and societies towards a more regenerative, peaceful, and joyful way of being. 

This is a little corner of the internet I've carved out to share knowledge, time, and space with you. I'm glad you're here and I hope you'll engage with me and the wonderful content I've tried to meaningfully curate from wise and inspiring minds. 

I've spent a couple of decades researching ways to live in a regenerative community and organise life around the needs and wellbeing of all living things.

I studied economics and political economy at university. I wrote a thesis on Indigenous Self-Determination and Enterprise Development. This led me to a critical analysis of history, power, and race. I started practising 'radical' (think common sense) ideas by starting and joining social enterprises and community organisations. I have mostly worked with First Nations-owned and led enterprises and organisations.

Once I started to grasp imperialism and colonialism, working for First Nations organisations seemed like the only logical thing to do. Twenty years later, I feel the same. 

Through my work, I've had the benefit of contributing to First Nations aspirations in many ways. I've also been lucky enough to learn many invaluable lessons. Including some about how to organise a community of people to thrive as nature.  

I'm dedicated to working with people and organisations to understand and implement ideas that lead to wellbeing through equity, justice, peace, belonging, and regeneration. It starts with understanding and organising around people's needs. It starts with asking and answering simple questions. 

So what needs do you have? What needs does your family have? What needs does your organisation have? What needs does your community have? What do we need to achieve those needs? 

Let the process begin... 

* I will write more about my decision to not capitalise my name. I will link here, but for now, I do it because I'm following the example of bell hooks and john powell.