1 “Intertwined Languages and Broken Flows: Reading Ontological Polyphonies in Lower Murray Country (South Australia)” As a brief preamble, two aspects of this work require explanations. First, the presentation of this essay is unconventional. It is primarily visual and to be understood, literally and figuratively, as a tableau in the dual French meaning of the term, i.e. as both table and picture. The graphic aspect of this non-linear vis-à-vis format was deemed the most constructive manner to achieve the article’s aim of preserving the opacity of Ngarrindjeri discourses, while shedding new light on the int erdependency between Written by Camille Roulière (J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide, Australia; and ERIBIA, University of Caen Normandie, France). Published in Unstable States, Mutable Conditions. Special Issue of Angles: French Perspectives on the Anglophone World 4 (December 2016). http://angles.saesfrance.org/index.php?id=938