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'On the riverbank at the old Sackville Aboriginal Reserve on Dyarubbin there-s a stone obelisk. It seems permanent and solid, but it has a habit of slipping out of landscape and memory. Erected in 1952, the obelisk was later swallowed whole by lantana, and when found again during a clean-up in the 1970s, nobody could recall anything about it. There is a sense of quiet reverence to it - this tall, solitary monument dark with age, like a gravestone. But perhaps more striking is the fantastical old fig tree nearby, its interwoven roots wrapped over a massive rectangular rock.' (Publication abstract)
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- Sackville, Hawkesbury area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
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