Community Coming Together: Town and Beemunnel by Peter Mackay

Communities are dynamic and always changing. Nuances of past and present, of the Beemunnel and town, our natural and built environments are at play as our community comes together.

Our families, as shown by the horse-shoe shapes creating circles, now reside in Warran/Warraan/Warren along the Wambuul (Macquaire - winding river) Warraan (River).

The canoes on the warraan display our ancestors Wayilwan markings, reflecting what was in the past but what is now being rediscovered by us local mob today.

The green and blue squiggly lines reflect the wetlands of Wayilwan Country, transient yet necessary to sustain culture and community. The cross-hatch lines are the bora grounds which still speak. They speak of the importance of ceremony and initiation, in the past, and today, although in a different form.

The square markings are the scarred and carve trees which dominated the landscape prior to the English invasion. As our Wayilwan culture is rediscovered and revived, community also comes together: Beemunnel and town.