City & Venue

This is Whadjuk country, where the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River) meets the ocean, and stories of creation are carried on the sea breeze. Boorloo (Perth) is the longest city on the planet, a wide urban sprawl stretched along a coastline of brilliant white coral-sand beaches. From this city, our minds and hearts turn outward across the Wheat Belt plains, through great forests of the South West and along the rugged south coast, then up through the million square kilometres of the Western Deserts and into the red earth pindan of the Pilbara and the mangrove coasts and ancient stone country of the Kimberley. Western Australia spans more than a third of this continent. It holds stories across more than 80 Aboriginal language groups, each carrying deep cultural knowledge, law, and connection to Country that has sustained people for tens of thousands of years.