Journey to Dja Dja Wurrung

step into my heart
chilled by Europe’s beauties
yearning yet for gums

Daylesford Lake Vic.

Dja Dja Wurrung is the indigenous name for Daylesford and surrounds. The area was radically transformed by the 1850s gold rush and ongoing annexation of indigenous land for agriculture, the settlement of European migrants and the development of industries. The scale of destruction of native bush and people was vast and brutal.

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