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ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER Mallee country through an artistic lens WILL YEOMAN enjoys a vicarious journey, taking in places and characters
THE MALLEE: A JOURNEY THROUGH NORTH-WEST VICTORIA Published by Ten Bag Press ($59.95). tenbagpress.com.au
heat and sheep farming. Small towns and big roads. WGrand old hotels and modest general stores. Loquacious locals and quiet cockies. Spectacular silo art and pink lakes. Sounds like the WA outback. Except it’s the Mallee, in Victoria’s north-west. A vicarious rather than precarious road trip is within our grasp, thanks to a stunning new photographic book that takes us to the small towns and communities Wal Ferguson's Mallee Park Farm holds a secret mural far from the road, the front side can be viewed with binoculars. of the Mallee in the company of writer Adam McNicol — his the book a sense of journey”, the then headed west to Murrayville; originally from Hyderabad in prefacing Short History of the team spent two years exploring the for the third, we began at India. Shearer “Mulga” Mulraney Mallee is excellent — and five region and collecting photographs Wycheproof and finished at as he enjoys a smoko. Michael award-winning Australian and stories. Kulwin; and for the fourth and last “Boozer” Robertson, a farmer who photographers: Andrew Chapman, “For the first chapter,” writes chapter, we started at Quambatook helped get Patchewollock Music Jaime Murcia, Noel Butcher, McNicol, “we followed the line and ended our journey at Festival going. Local farmer and Melanie Faith Dove and Erin from Rainbow to Yaapeet and then Manangatang.” history buff Mick Giddings among Jonasson. travelled from Beulah to I liked spending time in Beulah, his “extraordinary collection of Deciding that “the railway lines Patchewollock; for the second, we where the “football and netball historic material”; 91-year-old that traverse (or once traversed) started at Morton Plains near teams were once the envy of many Berriwillock resident Heather Gill. the Mallee was a great way to give Birchip, travelled north to Ouyen, other Mallee communities”. In Tour guide Stanna Birchip, “famous for being the Yuko, who grew up in home of the Mallee bull”. In Singapore and moved to Berriwillock, whose “first building Salt Lake with her of note” was a wine shanty. In family “to slow down Quambatook, or “Quamby”, and experience birthplace of country music Australia’s wide open legend John Williamson and spaces”. childhood home of Molly This book is more Meldrum. And seeing the “hidden than a nostalgic portrait of art” on derelict houses near regional Victoria. As McNicol says Hopetoun. “It also highlights the green shoots Then there are the people. of revival”. Which is something Rainbow service station owners those of us who live, or have lived, Newly painted silos at Sea Lake in Victoria's Mallee. Dirya and Santhosh Kumar, in regional WA can relate to. in To advertise please contact Jacinda Gordon on 9482 2485 [email protected] WA [email protected]
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