Six Peaks Speak

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Six Peaks Speak: A journey in southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country through the eyes of six iconic mountains.

A compelling storytelling journey in southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country through the eyes of six iconic mountains in central Victoria, Australia. An interdisciplinary and intercultural story across time, cultures, contested histories and unsettled relationships, uniquely traversing First Nations and unsettler, history, geology, ecology, anthropology and reserve management.

Barry and Lynne will be in conversation.

Saturday 31 May

12noon - 1.00pm

Senior Citizens Hall, 52a Alma St, Maryborough

$5.00

‘Professor Golding presents a cultural and environmental history of landscape in central Victoria, Australia. His vision is for a reconciled relationship on Country. He extends First Nations people respect that has been missing until recently in Australian historiography, providing an important model of how non-Indigenous Australians should engage with traditional owners in research and writing projects.’

Dr Stephen Carey, Senior Research Fellow, Federation University

‘Barry Golding speaks with care and an enduring need for us all to be at our own peaks, not just the hills in this book, their geology, flora and fauna. … Thank you for choosing these Six Peaks that are special to me also, and for being their friend, for they could not ask for anyone better. Dhelkup Murrupuk, we give you good spirit.’ (in book’s preface)

Rodney Carter, Dja Dja Wurrung Chief Executive Officer

Dr Lynne Kelly AO is a science writer and Adjunct Research Fellow at LaTrobe University. After four decades teaching, she completed a doctorate exploring the way non-literate cultures memorise and teach a vast amount of practical information without writing. She has since implemented many indigenous and medieval memory methods in a contemporary context and been astounded by their efficacy.

Lynne has published 21 books, the most recent being The Memory Code, Memory Craft, Songlines: the power and promise and Songlines for Younger Readers. Her new book on why music, art and our connection to place are innate, yet under-utilised knowledge skills was published in September 2024.

Author Photo: Abigail Heitbaum