10. Renewing Country: yan-giwa jagun

Thanks to an 1857 painting of the view across to Lennox Headland, we can see how the original vegetation of this place was a mix of rainforest and native coastal grassland. Since the 1980s, this powerful image has inspired and informed decades of local bush regeneration programs here. These focus on recovering some of the biological diversity that was lost along the coast to farming, mining and development. Today Aboriginal communities are involved with revegetation projects all along the coast. When Country is sick and not being looked after, people are spiritually and physically sick too.