women's past, present, future

Tanya Charles remembers visiting Mungo as a child with her grandmother. Now, she's a ranger at the National Park.

For Tanya Charles, Mungo is one of the greatest places on earth.

“To me it’s an ancient museum that talks about true history, the way our people survived through hunting and gathering, but it also talks about good years and bad years," she told NITV's The Point.

“The people out here, they’ve been through ice ages and our people have survived so much. It’s just unbelievable how deadly our people are.”

The Mutthi Mutthi woman has been walking the Country since she was a little girl, first under the guidance of her grandmother.

Now, she’s a ranger.

Naomi Price Petyarre  

(Indigenous Australian)

Bush Yam – Mothers Country 

“There was nothing in the world that was going to stop Ashleigh Barty from taking the Wimbledon title she had arrived on these shores to claim. Not the weight of the moment that tested her to her mental limits, nor the force of history amidst a run inspired by her mentor and idol, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, whose influence even spread to the scallop-patterned dress she wore, and not even the formidable, resilient opponent across the net.

The 25-year-old Barty won her second grand slam title by riding her nerves in a desperately tense contest between two world number ones, recovering after failing to serve out the match in the second set to beat Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3 and become the first Australian woman, also a proud Indigenous woman, to win Wimbledon since Goolagong Cawley in 1980. Fifty years on from Goolagong Cawley’s maiden Wimbledon title, here she stands as the most fitting successor imaginable.”

The Dharug language, also known as the Gadigal language, is from around the city currently known as Sydney. It has a word 'walabi', from which the word 'wallaby' has come. The original word has been loaned for a cryptid.

The walabi - Petrogale coleoptrata - is a multilegged adaptation of the Not-Kangaroo cryptid. In this case, while the Not-Kangaroo is in the same category of creature as the Not Deer of Appalachia, it is considerably more benign. It retains it's herbivorous nature, and extended stomachs allow it to digest poor forage for survival in desolate areas.

Lindy Lee (b1954) Australia

Ouroboros (2021-24)