Wominjeka fellow travellers, school holidays are approaching again and this week I’d like to give a few ideas on places of Indigenous interest that you might visit with the little ones. A very excellent guide to be found in the little Allwood Library is a book titled... 
Wominjeka fellow travellers, what a busy couple of weeks we’ve had at FNF. On Thursday 13th August, we here at Allwood house joined the many great volunteers for the annual Nillumbik Community Awards at the Eltham Community and Reception Centre. This event is hosted... 
Wominjeka fellow travellers, this Saturday 15th August marks the death of William Barak, the last leader of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people. Barak was 85 years old when he died in 1903. During his long life, he had witnessed the signing of the Batman Treaty in 1835... 
Wominjeka fellow travellers, last weekend some friends of my partner, very kindly offered us a weekend at their holiday home in Foster. We hadn’t been to Gippsland in quite a long time and were delighted to get away from the bright lights and hustle of Hurstbridge,... 
Wominjeka fellow travellers, tomorrow begins a new month, August and with the ending of one season we begin another. The wombat gives way to the orchid with the passing of Waring we begin the Guling season. Our first people didn’t follow a twelve-month calendar nor... 
“When I wrote the book Why Warriors Lie Down and Die twenty-five years ago, I realised there was a much deeper story to tell about the relationship between the original Australians and the others in the mainstream Australian community.” Have you read Richard Trudgen’s... 