THE IMPORTANCE OF PLACE
‘There’s not many places on Earth like this really, that embrace the country, that are a kind of celebration of the country and an invitation to interact with it.’ – Paul Grabowsky AO
‘Places like this leave a memory.’ – Archie Roach AM
‘Australian Indigenous people have the oldest living tradition on the planet. They have been singing for millennia, their music passing through thousands of generations of ears, hands and hearts.’ – Genevieve Lacey
Known as the ‘Fire Makers’ or ‘Red Ochre Peoples’, the Peramangk people inhabited the Adelaide Hills for thousands of years prior to European colonisation in 1836. Peramangk territory extends as far north as the Barossa and east to the banks of the Murray River. Rock paintings, scar trees, and the remnants of creek-side camps and lookout caves provide evidence of their existence throughout the region. 11
