My Country is Old Country

This country is old.

Cloud country. Forest country.

Land of sleeping hills.

Bobin is sacred country, woman's country, to the Biripi people of the Kattang language group on Australia's east coast. This country sits in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, a range of mountains that runs the length of the east coast. The soils are old volcanic soils, red as fire and fertile. The creeks rise and fall with the autumn rains and the forests burn in bushfire.

I acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and pay my respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.