old voices impelling me upward

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HEADNOTE: All artworks in this post appear courtesy of Artlandish Aboriginal Art Gallery. Special thanks to Kristie Linklater for granting permission. HEADNOTE 2: This overview is a superficial summary presented within the framework of my limited understanding. Now that we’ve …

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other things submerged

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Now we’re Cook-in Our next, and only remaining Off-train Experience came at the ghost town of Cook. Per the information on the Indian Pacific brochure, Cook sits 1138 kilometres from Adelaide and 1523 kilometres from Perth. The closest highway is …

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I travel in a circle

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At the end of the previous post I wrote that although the relationship the Indigenous People of Australia have with Country is “similar to the relationship the Indigenous People of America had with their land, it is unlike it in …

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glimpses of buried treasure

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Ride the train from Sydney to Melbourne and while you’ll have stops along the way at places named Broadmeadows, Seymour, and Campbelltown, you’ll also stop at Benalla, Wangaratta, Wagga Wagga, Junee, and Cootamundra. The frequency of stops and this mixture …

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it could never be set right

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It had been a fun day thus far but these morning activities were merely the preliminaries. After lunch we’d drive 20 minutes south and come to the site of the main event – the Pinnacles Desert in Nambung National Park. …

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