Category: People & Encounters
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Birrarung: The River Beneath the River
Long before Melbourne existed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people called the river Birrarung — often translated as “river of mists and shadows”.
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National Museum of Australia: Stories of Land, People and Identity in Canberra
One of the most striking pieces is the Saw Doctor’s Wagon, also known as the Road Urchin — a brightly painted, part-home, part-workshop wagon created by English immigrant Harold Wright.